Battenberg Cupcakes

April 15, 2023

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These battenberg cupcakes boast almond and vanilla sponge, raspberry jam, marzipan and a clean, two-tone almond buttercream.

They’re identical to the traditional rectangular sponge they take their identify from, solely higher!

Now, I will not lie, there are fairly a number of steps to creating these battenberg cupcakes, so they’re a little bit of a day undertaking. Nonetheless, each aspect is in itself fairly simple, you may solely want frequent, simple to select up elements, and the outcomes are completely, completely showstopping.

To start out, you may make the almond sponges. The strategy for making the batter is a breeze; a easy case of creaming butter and sugar collectively, then whisking in eggs, vanilla and almond extract earlier than folding in self-raising flour and floor almonds, and at last, stirring in a splash of milk.

Then the enjoyable begins as you divide the batter between two bowls and use meals colouring to show half the batter yellow and half pink. You then pile the batter into cupcake circumstances in alternating blobs, swirl with a skewer and bake – the ensuing sponges are so fairly!

Subsequent, you may prime every sponge with a contact of jam and a disc of marzipan, reflecting the marzipan you discover wrapped round a standard battenberg.

With that executed, you may flip your consideration to the attractive two-tone almond buttercream, which you may make by beating butter, icing sugar, milk and almond extract collectively after which, as with the sponges, dividing in two and colouring half yellow and half pink.

In relation to piping, you may want a piping bag and an open star nozzle, plus some cling movie (saran wrap). The cling movie is the key to getting completely balanced, outlined two-tone swirls in your buttercream and I’ve included images beneath so that you will know simply what to do.

Lastly, you may push a tiny slice of mini battenberg into the highest of every cake to finish the look. Aren’t they only lovable?

For those who’re a fan of battenberg in its traditional kind, you may adore these battenberg cupcakes. They actually go all out of the almond flavours and have a beautiful vary of textures from the tender sponge, to the chewy marzipan to the creamy, yielding buttercream. Simply beautiful!

Learn on for the total recipe with detailed directions and a useful {photograph} for each step. And when you’ve got any questions, simply go away me a remark. Take pleasure in!

Components

For The Sponges

200 g (1 stick + 6 tbsp) barely salted butter
200 g (1 cup + 2 tbsp) white caster sugar (superfine sugar)
3 medium free vary eggs
1½ tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp almond extract
200 g (1⅓ cup) self-raising white flour (self rising flour)
50 g (½ cup) floor almonds (almond meal)
75 g (5 tbsp) complete milk
1 tsp yellow meals colouring
1 tsp pink meals colouring

For the marzipan layer

3 tbsp seedless raspberry jam
200 g (7 oz) golden marzipan

For the almond buttercream

250 g (2 sticks + 4 tsp) barely salted butter softened
500 g (4 cups) icing sugar (powdered sugar)
1 tsp almond extract
2 tbsp complete milk
1 tsp yellow meals colouring
1 tsp pink meals colouring

To embellish

3 mini battenberg truffles every minimize into 4 slices

Gear

Directions

Make the sponges

Preheat the oven temperature to 180C/350F (160C/320F fan-assisted).

Line a 12 gap muffin tin with cupcake circumstances.

Put the sugar and butter in a bowl.

Beat collectively till very pale and fluffy.

Add one egg and whisk.

Whisk within the remaining eggs on by one.

Add within the vanilla and almond extract.

Whisk till totally mixed.

Add the flour and floor almonds.

Fold in till mixed right into a thick batter.

Add the milk.

Stir in to loosen the batter.

Divide the batter equally between two bowls and use the meals colouring to color one bowl pink and the opposite bowl yellow.

Share the batter evenly between the 12 cupcake circumstances in alternating blobs.

Swirl every cupcake evenly with a skewer.

Bake in the course of the oven for 20-25 minutes, till the highest springs again if a finger is pressed gently on prime, and a skewer pushed into the middle of a cupcake comes out clear.

Cool within the tin for 10 minutes, then switch to a wire rack to chill utterly.

Add the marzipan layer

Slice the tops off the cupcakes as wanted to present a flat floor.

Brush the tops of the truffles with jam.

Place a marzipan spherical on prime of every cake.

Roll out the marzipan to about 2mm thick.

Reduce out 12 rounds about the identical width because the tops of your cupcakes.

Make the almond buttercream

Place the softened butter in a bowl.

Beat till creamy.

Sift within the icing sugar, then add the vanilla and milk.

Whisk beginning slowly till simply mixed.

Add the new water and whisk once more, constructing as much as full pace and beating for a number of minutes till pale, fluffy and significantly elevated in quantity.

Divide the buttercream equally between two bowls and use the meals colouring to color one half pink and the opposite half yellow.

Lay a big sq. of cling movie on the counter and spoon the yellow buttercream in a traces alongside it, then fold over and twist the ends to kind a sausage. Repeat with the pink buttercream.

Drop the 2 sausages right into a piping bag fitted with a star nozzle. Pull the twisted cling movie ends of each via the nozzle then snip the surplus clingfilm away.

Do some check piping on a plate to be sure you’re getting each colors, then pipe the buttercream in swirls on prime of every cake.

To complete, pop a slice of mini battenberg on prime of every cake.

And as soon as you have given the recipe a go, I might love you to come back again and go away a remark letting me understand how yours turned out.

I might like to see your movies and pics, too! Simply tag me on social media. I am @emilylearycooks on Twitter and TikTok or @amummytoo on Instagram.

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Battenberg Cupcakes

These battenberg cupcakes boast almond and vanilla sponge, raspberry jam, marzipan and a clean, two-tone almond buttercream.

Prep Time35 minutes

Prepare dinner Time25 minutes

Complete Time1 hr

Course: Dessert, Snack

Delicacies: British

Eating regimen: Vegetarian

Servings: 12 cupcakes

Creator: Emily Leary