Battenberg Cake Recipe | olivemagazine

Ingredients

• 150g self-raising flour
• 150g golden caster sugar
• 150g salted butter softened plus extra for the tin
• 3 at room temperature eggs beaten
• ½ heaped tsp baking powder
• 2 unwaxed lemons zested
• 2 oranges zested
• orange food colouring gel
• yellow food colouring gel
• 70g salted butter softened
• 180g icing sugar plus extra for dusting
• 3 sprigs thyme leaves stripped and finely chopped
• 1 unwaxed lemon ½ zested and 1½ tsp of juice
• 1 orange zested and 1½ tsp of juice
• 300g white marzipan