BATTENBURG CAKE
Two cups of flour; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 4 or 5 tablespoons butter; 2 teaspoon salt; % cup sugar; 2 egg whites beaten stiff; 2 cup milk; and %2 teaspoon vanilla. Sift flour, salt and baking powder. Cream butter. Add sugar- gradually and beat till light and fluffy. Add flour alternately with the milkj a little at a time. Beat thoroughly after each addition, and add vanilla. Fold in the beaten egg whites last. Divide into two, and colour one half pale pink. Bake in two greased and floured square tins, moderate oven, about 20 minutes. Cool thoroughly, cut each layer into six even strips, making 12 altogether. Arrange first layer of alternate strips of pink and white, using three strips, joining with strawberry filling. Upon these place 3 more strips, putting pink on white, like a chequerboard, and joined with strawberry filling. You have. now used 6 strips. Repeat the process with the other 6 strips, making a bar-shaped cake of pink and white strips. Enclose the whole cake im thick coconut paste, and leave in a cool place about 24 hours before cutting into slices, each of which will resemble .a pink and white chequerboard. For a change you may colour. the pink strips brown with cocoa; and almond. paste is even nicer than coconut paste, though it is not always available, Strawberry Filling: One cup sifted icing sugar; 2 tablespoons strawberry jam; 1 teaspoon melted butter. Beat the jam into the icing sugar, add the butter and sufficient hot water to make a smooth spreading paste. 1 Coconut Paste: Cup and a-half . sifted icing sugar; 2 cup desiccated coconut; 1 tablespoon butter; good pinch salt; 2 tablespoons lemon juice; 1% teaspoon almond essence. Cream butter and sugar, add salt and lemon juice. Add sufficient hot water to make a smooth paste. Add almond essence, and sufficient green colouring to make a pretty colour, Add coconut and beat well. Spread evenly on to cake. Paste should be as thick as possible,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 427, 29 August 1947, Page 22
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334BATTENBURG CAKE New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 427, 29 August 1947, Page 22
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