♥ a block of white marzipan
♥ three tablespoons of raspberry jam
♥ splash of milk
♥ one teaspoon of vanilla essence
♥ one teaspoon baking powder
♥ red and blue food colouring or gel
♥ non stick baking parchment and foil
♥ a square baking tin/dish
note: i was even drawn to the union jack packaging on pretty much all of these ingredients! :)
set the oven to 170 degrees, or gas mark four. prepare the baking tin with buttered parchment and make a divider using a wedge of kitchen foil wrapped in parchment (so the sponge doesn't stick to the foil).
for the sponge, beat the sugar and butter in a bowl until pale and creamy. add the first egg to make the mixture easier to beat and then add the rest of the eggs one by one. next add the vanilla essence and lastly sift and fold in the flour. if the mixture seems too thick, add a splash of milk and continue to beat.
next, separate the mixture and turn royal blue and regal red (well, pink!) a little tip is that if the blue food colouring turns your mixture green, try adding a little red to make it a more purpley blue. primary colour wheel yo!
for the marzipan coating, being by dusting a flat surface with icing sugar, rather like you would with flour for rolling pastry out. roll out the marzipan with length of your sponge and a width that will wrap around it.
when you're happy, lay your sponge on the marzipan and wrap up, pinching at the edges to seal. you may want to cut the ends to neaten it up too. and of course for the first little taste!
serve with a cup of earl grey - of course from one of these jubilee teapots - and there you have it! a jubilee battenberg fit for a queen!
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