Battenberg GTi Turbo
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Eight pink and yellow sponge cakes are joined with warm apricot jam and wrapped in a large sheet of marzipan to make a giant Battenberg.
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- The ingredients are listed without quantities: eggs, marzipan, caster sugar, self-raising flour, butter, apricot jam, milk and food colouring. Creation time is put at approximately 6 hours, plus 4 hours of heated discussion between husband and wife. The method, told from the husband’s side, is to ask for 8 rectangular cakes, 4 pink and 4 yellow, watch football for two hours, trim the cakes and lay them out, never suggest that any need remaking, heat apricot jam to bond them, and go back to the shops for more marzipan before rolling a sheet 64 inches long by 36 inches wide. The comparison given is a Mr Kipling Battenberg of 170 mm by 50 mm and 320 grams against this one at 400 mm by 160 mm and 5 kg. Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3 · Source 4 · Source 5 · Source 6 · Source 7
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Eggs Marzipan Caster Sugar Self-Raising Flour Butter Apricot Jam Milk Food Colouring
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5. Realizing that things are getting out of hand, pop back to the shops, and buy more marzipan. Return and roll out a sheet 64 inches long x 36 inches wide.
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Ingredients:
Eggs
Marzipan
Caster Sugar
Self-Raising Flour
Butter
Apricot Jam
Milk
Food Colouring
This is one fatty-boom-batty cake. Creation time was measured at approximately 6 hours, plus 4 hours of heated discussion with wife sulking over creative differences. Husband stayed cool and calm at all times.
1. After explaining that the wife’s bum has never looked big in anything, ask politely if it’s at all possible if she could make you 8 rectangular cakes 4 pink 4 yellow, before retiring to the lounge and watching football for two hours. Return to kitchen 4 hours later to check on your masterpiece.
2. Trim cakes and lay out on tray. Never, and I mean never, mention that 4 cakes are of sub-standard quality and would benefit from being remade.
3. Wipe blood from forehead and agree cakes are fabulous.
4. Heat apricot jam to bond cakes together.
5. Realizing that things are getting out of hand, pop back to the shops, and buy more marzipan. Return and roll out a sheet 64 inches long x 36 inches wide.
6. Mr Kipling’s Battenburg measures 170mm x 50mm and weighs a meagre 320grams. Mr Pimplings Battenburg measures 400mm x 160mm and comes in at a gobsmacking 5 kg. It just goes to show that bigger is always better.
Then its just the taste test, now who to test it on?
Ah yes just the person, and the verdict, looks good, taste good, and by golly it does you good. (or was that Guiness?).
