Well here it is, my attempt at a Union Jack Battenberg! “EPIC” as my eldest son would say – or did say when I was making it last night! Rather stressful but worth the effort I think. Not one for the faint hearted!
If you are making one, look at this blog for great pictures & advice on cutting and icing inside a Union Jack Battenberg:
http://www.bakingelements.com/baking-elements/2012/5/28/union-jack-jubilee-battenburg.html
If you would like a simpler Jubilee Battenberg with a great wow factor, have a look at my May Recipe Post!
This is for the Homemade by Fleur, Blogging Jubilee Baking Competition http://wp.me/p1UMex-o3 sponsored by Appliances Online
thehungrymum
May 16, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Oh my! This is just about the most amazing cake I’ve ever seen. I wouldn’t attempt to make it but wow – just stunning!
FlourVonSponge
May 16, 2012 at 6:05 pm
That is indeed epic. My friend is making one like this too. I’m going to send her a link. Looking forward to the other entries too. I’ve just submitted mine.
Homemade By Fleur
May 22, 2012 at 10:09 pm
I’ve seen red and blue squares in a battenburg cake for the Jubilee but not an actual Union Jack! I’m very impressed. Thanks very much for entering my bloggers Jubilee baking competition.
Ruth C
May 30, 2012 at 3:48 pm
what recipe did you use for this? I am looking at the BBC good food one, but wanted to know how much food colouring to use….Ruth
CafeRetro
May 30, 2012 at 5:44 pm
It’s based on my previous recipe for Jubilee battenberg. I made a larger red cake and did the top cut outs, then fitted the blue bits in, then I carefully turned it over before cutting out the next bits – if that makes sense! You have to use quite a lot of food colouring to get a definite colour in the mix before you bake, add a little at a time until you are happy. You must use paste colour though or your mixture will get too runny & split. Good luck!
Frankie
May 31, 2012 at 10:58 am
Can I ask, what did you use for the white bits?
CafeRetro
May 31, 2012 at 11:36 am
It’s an ordinary buttercream which I made with cooking margarine & icing sugar. If you have time (and patience) you can put the buttercream on the blue slices, put them in the fridge to harden & then sandwich together with a thick strawberry/raspberry jam to get a red diagonal stripe
Sam Pollard
June 3, 2012 at 9:38 am
I have to congratulate you on your neat cutting! I attempted one myself last night, Overall I’ll reasonably happy, though my diagonal cuts are no where near as straight as yours and despite using half a bottle of blue food colouring it’s still only pale blue at at best!
Here’s mine:
https://plus.google.com/100233830021615615627/posts/Pu82u6c9xoH
CafeRetro
June 4, 2012 at 9:53 am
It still looks impressive though! Unfortunately some of the blue supermarket colourings aren’t very strong, I would recommend a paste colour or Langdales do a liquid colour in blue which had a good colour
Ruth
June 4, 2012 at 7:34 pm
Mine isn’t looking great unfortunately! Somewhat of a bit of a mess! Will see what it looks like with the marzipan…