Pimp That Snack

Fattenburg 2

by Matthew David 7 photos Rated 65% 219 votes when voting closed

For the last 10 years of my 13 year life I have eaten Battenberg cake whenever I could, so the choice of what to pimp was easy. Convincing my mum to buy the ingredients and help with the washing up was not so easy.

The ingredients were as follows:

1lb flour
1lb sugar
1lb stork
16 eggs
1 bottle of both red and yellow food colour (sent my dog hyper when she ate the cake)
2 box’s marzipan ( 1 for cake 1 for me)

Ingredients on the worktop: self-raising flour, caster sugar, Stork, marzipan, flavourings and a dozen eggs

Approx cost £11.00

Mixed half the ingredients with red colouring, (Whole bottle).

Boy in a Snack Pimp at Work T-shirt cracking eggs into a bowl

Pale sponge batter poured from a bowl into a deep lined square cake tin

Baked for 1.5 hours, plenty of time to wash up the mixer for the yellow cake.

Baked square sponge risen level with the tin rim, cooling on a wire rack

Cut each cake in half to give 2 squares of each colour.

Four trimmed sponge slabs, two pink and two yellow, laid out on baking paper

Trimmed and formed large square.

Rolled out marzipan, fight of family from eating too much of the marzipan.

Sponge blocks assembled into a checkerboard on rolled marzipan, one shop Battenberg slice for scale

Rapped marzipan round cake and stood back to admire the result.

Baker with knife and fork behind the finished giant Battenberg, a normal slice plated in front

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