Team Honk Bloggers Bake Off - Team Honk 'Baton'berg Cake

When it was suggested that we have a bloggers bake off to raise money for Team Honk Sports Relief I knew I had to take part.

The theme for a bake is sporty, Sport Relief, Team Honk Relay or red nose.

I will admit to a slight panic. Having the twins running round means I do not have the time to do novelty cakes and I am really in need of some practise!

So I got my thinking cap on and tried to come up with a way to come up with a cake that is sports related. I had thought of making a cake with hidden balls inside, or hidden red noses, then I had a bright idea. It was literally a light bulb moment and a cake with a play on words.

I came up with the Team Honk 'Baton' berg cake.

This is what I did...

Team Honk 'Baton'berg Cake

Ingredients

175g baking spread

175g caster sugar

175g self raising flour

3 eggs at room temperature

2tbsp cocoa

100g strawberries, mashed

1/2tsp vanilla paste

Strawberry jam

500g white marzipan or fondant icing if preferred

 

Method

 

Pre heat the oven to 170C (fan)

1 - Mix the spread until it is creamy

2 - Add the caster sugar and mix until light and fluffy

3 - Gradually add the eggs along with a little flour to prevent curdling

4 - Sift in the flour and mix until evenly combined

5 - Once your cake mixture is made weigh the mixture so that you are able to divide equally

6 - Divide the mixture equally into two separate bowls

 

7 - In one bowl add the vanilla paste and mix thoroughly

 

8 - In the other bowl add the strawberries and sift in the cocoa, mix thoroughly

 

9 - Take either a square or rectangular cake tin and prepare it so that you are able to bake both halves together

10 - Measure a double layer of tin foil that is big enough to line the tin plus an additional 10cms

11 - In the centre of the foil fold in half, this will create the dividing section, fold the foil back to create a 10 cms high foil wall

12 - Line the tin with the foil making sure the foil wall is in the centre of the tin, continue to line each half of the tin with baking paper

13 - Add the two cake mixtures to the tin and place in the pre heated oven and bake for 30 - 40 minutes until both halves are baked through

 

14 - Once the cake is ready remove from the tin and leave to cool completely

15 - Once cooled trim the edges and cut each cake in half using a ruler to make sure you have four equal pieces

16 - Generously dust the worktop with icing sugar to prevent sticking and roll out a piece of marzipan which is slightly bigger than the width of the cake once put together, this will be the base

17 - Spread some of the strawberry jam on the base and place a chocolate strawberry piece of cake on one half

18 - Spread some strawberry jam on the middle side of the cake and place a piece of the vanilla cake by its side, the jam will help to keep the pieces together

19 -Spread the top of the two cake pieces with more jam and place the other two pieces of cake on top to create the chess board design

20 - Roll out the rest of the marzipan, cover the cake with a covering of jam and cover the cake with the marzipan

25 - Trim the edges and cut off the two ends so that you have a neat finish to the cake

 

 

 

All of the bloggers taking place in the Team Honk Great Bloggers Bake Off have donated to Team Honk for Sports Relief 2014. If you would like to sponsor us *smiles sweetly* you can do here Sponsor Team Honk thank you x

 

 

I am sharing this recipe with A Mummy Too's Recipe of the Week , Honest Mum's Tasty Tuesdays and Casa Costello's Bake of the Week