Battenburg cake

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Battenburg cake (also: Battenberg cake) is a light sponge cake which, when cut in cross-section, displays a distinctive two-by-two check pattern alternately coloured pink and yellow. The cake is covered in marzipan, although the two ends are usually left exposed to display the check pattern. The coloured sections are made by dying half of the cake mixture pink, and half yellow, then cutting each resultant sponge into two long, uniform cuboids, and joining them together with a little cream, jam, or icing, to form one cake.

The origin of the name is not clear, but it is sometimes attributed to the Battenberg family, who lived in England during the late-19th century.

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