Individual battenberg cakes

These cakes look so pretty, but if you make a nice arrangement out of them, don't expect them to be around for long!

Preparation and sssembling time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 25 minutes
Serves: 4

What you need:

• 150g Unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
• 150g Billington's Unrefined Golden Caster Sugar
• 3 Free-range eggs, beaten
• 150g Self-raising flour
• 30ml Milk
• Drop of Silver Spoon Cakecraft Pink Food Colour
• 50g Apricot jam
• 200g Silver Spoon Cakecraft Finest Quality Marzipan

What you do:

1. Preheat the oven to 200°C/fan180°C/400°F/Gas Mark 6.
2. Beat together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs a little at a time, adding a little of the flour, if the mixture looks a little curdled fold in more flour. Add a little milk to the mixture, to make the mixture dropping consistency.
3. Pour half of the cake mixture into another bowl. Add a drop of pink food colour to one of the bowls and stir well.
4. Grease and base line a 15cm square cake tin. Fold a 15cm square of foil into a thick strip and place down the middle of the tin to divide the tin into two equal parts. Spoon the pink cake mix into one side and the plain mix into the other side.
5. Bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes, or until springy to the touch. Leave to cool on a wire rack.
6. Lightly dust a surface with icing sugar and roll the marzipan into a 23cm x 23cm rectangle.
7. Trim the cakes to the same size, and then cut both halves into quarters lengthways.
8. In a pan, heat the jam until it becomes runny.
9. Place one of the pink pieces of cake onto a work surface and brush one side with jam. Lay a yellow piece next to it on the jam side and push together.
10. Brush the top with more jam. Top the yellow piece of cake with a pink piece and vice versa. Brush the outside edges of the cake with more jam.
11. Cut the rolled marzipan so that it's just slightly longer than the cake. Wrap it around the cake, brushing the edges with a little jam to seal them together.
12. Trim off the excess marzipan at the ends. Repeat until all the cake and marzipan is used.

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