#battenburg cake

[nanmo-wakaran]

battenberg cake

[caranoelle]

betty my dearly beloved <33 I made this so that I would finally have a new art piece to use as my icon ! I'm honestly really proud of the improvement since my last icon of betty

[sameold-world]

that was 19 years ago

[greenalia]

Cakes - Battenburg Cake This elegant tea cake, also known as a Battenberg Square, has homemade marzipan.

[fearlesswriter]

Battenburg Cake Recipe This elegant tea cake, also known as a Battenberg Square, has homemade marzipan.

[reinholdbieber]

Battenburg Cake This elegant tea cake, also known as a Battenberg Square, has homemade marzipan. 1 cup butter softened, 3 eggs, 2 cups all-purpose flour, 1/4 teaspoon almond extract, 2 drops red food coloring, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1.5 teaspoons lemon juice, 1 cup apricot preserves, 1/8 teaspoon salt, 3 cups confectioners' sugar, 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract, 2 cups ground almonds, 1 cup white sugar, 1 egg room temperature

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Apparantly all ‘true’ marzipan only comes from Toledo in Spain or Lubeck in Germany.

Europeans have a weird fixation with the stuff the way Canadians do about Kraft Dinner.

There’s a marzipan museum and cafe in Tallinn, which has survived two world wars when most of the city was laid waste, as if Kaiser Bill/Hitler and Tsar Nicholas/Stalin had issued out a standing order ‘lay the city to waste if you must, but the marzipan must be preserved at all costs!’

Tallinn was largely created by Lubeck in the 13th century ...

Further weird coincidences. The first city Britain completely destroyed in World War 2 with a firestorm was not a major industrial centre like Hamburg or Cologne ... but Lubeck. As if someone in Whitehall knew German production and morale would collapse quicker if the marzipan dried up.

Battenburg cake is a British invention (huzzah!) - one of its primary ingredients being marzipan. It was primarily created for visiting European dignitaries.

Looks familiar? It should do.

It also ‘just happens’ to be the logo of the Polish airforce ...

... which had the largest number of expat flyers in the British Royal Airforce during World War 2, even though France is nearer ... almost as if there was some subliminal need to defend the last marzipan in the free world?

The lands where Poland exists today, incidentally, has been the largest market for marzipan for centuries.

Were the last two world wars really about access and control of oil supplies as some tinhat conspiracy theorists would have it?

Or was it about access and control to marzipan? Could it happen again?

The truth is out there people ...

ate some dark chocolate but it’s not owned by any of the danger companies and it’s really just a thin chocolate shell full of marzipan so it’s probably fine *2 weeks later* marzipan has been recalled for asbestos contamination somehow

[planet-magic-land]

Kirb (Big Mode) hold Bee (regular size) gemntly 💤

including Kirb empty handed (Greemn and Pimnk) for if you want her to hold your own OCs.., you can just say she's Regular Size in the pic if your OC is tiny lol, just be nice pls, if you want PNG versions without the backgrounds then just ask :-]

reblogs appreciated ヾ(˵˃ᆺ˂˵)

[simplesatisfying]

If you’re someone who loveIts an English old fashioned… cake, here It was made from a Battenburg inspired cake with blue floral design…I’m over the moon how it turned out, what about you 🥹 credit-keempossible

[aslook-art]

Lovely delicious battenburg

[mail-posting]

Wait now that my brain mentions it what dessert do you think you'd be?

[stevieschrodinger]

[caranoelle]

little drawing of betty so i could have a new icon !! the old one was already starting to bug me smh

[rimeswithpurple]

Thank you @roomwithanopenfire, @talentpiper11 & @blackberrysummerblog for the tags! Everyone had a bit of a lie in this morning, the Little Purples and I went to see a Shakespeare on the Bluff performance of Much Ado About Nothing last night. I'm honestly surprised they made it through the whole thing since they didn't follow any of the plot, but they were very excited that the audience was encouraged to cheer, boo or shout out. Littlest Purple had the best time booing at the villain and even yelled "no" when Benedict proposed to Beatrice and that earned her a laugh from everyone around us.

I got quite a bit of drawing done! The line work on my COAR artwork is done and I'm so thrilled with it. I'm a sucker for detail and I had a lot of fun getting the Oxford shoes just right. I'm finishing up art for chapter 2 of my COBB. I have to stop myself from illustrating every scene, my partner has written so many scenes that beg to be illustrated! I've also been playing around with a fandom tattoo idea. The bun Baz looks so lonely and I really should get him shaded in too!

Side note, I've found myself listening to @youarenevertooold's podfic for Bazlow's Hierarchy of Needs every night when I sit down to draw. It's so funny and a chaotic Dev really is the best kind of Dev! If you haven't checked it out, you definitely should!

Simon's birthday is such a fun time of year and I loved seeing everyone's posts! I thought I might include some fun facts about my birthday spread below the cut, in addition to the tags

-I keep a journal of my baking and I had jotted down my pie in the sky idea for this year's birthday bake just hours after posting the butter cake last year. I never expected to be able to hit every item, but I surprised even myself and the only thing I didn't do was add flecks of edible gold paint to the petit fours

-I already have next year's bake plotted out and I think it's even bigger

-I had asked for a Fortnum & Mason hamper for my birthday after having read Snow for Christmas. I've given them as very special gifts in the past, but Daphne's love of it reminded me that I love it too!

-The pouring fondant for the petit fours can sense your fear and it's unforgiving. You have to commit to pouring it evenly and quickly because you only get one shot. My family was delighted to eat the rejects

-My hands were red for two days because I foolishly didn't wear gloves when I was making the wings and tails

-I mixed in little chunks of almond paste with the sour cherry scones and it was the best thing ever

-The checkerboard cookies were a reference to the battenburg cake I made last year

I have so much fun doing these birthday bakes! I love that it brings other people joy and the lovely comments I get mean the world to me! Although, I think from now on I may only do birthday bakes for Simon and Baz

Now, on to the tags!

@messofthejess @valeffelees @artsyunderstudy @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @youarenevertooold @bookish-bogwitch @facewithoutheart @thewholelemon @larkral @run-for-chamo-miles @fiend-for-culture @cosmicalart @mooncello @that-disabled-princess @cutestkilla @noblecorgi @iamamythologicalcreature @best--dress @emeryhall @ileadacharmedlife @drowninginships @supercutedinosaurs @whatevertheweather @rbkzz @ebbpettier @theimpossibledemon @katatsumuli @thehoneyedhufflepuff @theearlgreymage @theotherhufflepuff @onepintobean @orange-peony @hushed-chorus @fatalfangirl @ic3-que3n @bazzybelle @nightimedreamersworld @martsonmars @aristocratic-otter @shrekgogurt @monbons @alexalexinii @prettygoododds @ivelovedhimthroughworse @raenestee @skeedelvee

[bloody-bonesaw]

Everyone please put your hands together for my beautiful newborn daughter Mr. Kipling

She came to life when a moth landed on a battenburg cake to lay its eggs and he emerged radiant and glorious.

[i-like-rocks22]

I'm sorry, whose favourite cake is BATTENBURG?!