Mr Kipling would have been proud of this beast, measuring in at 100 x 40 x 40cm and weighing in at 75kg it was a mammoth of a cake!
Feeding over 250 people (and so it should!), taking almost 24 hours to complete and costing about £130 this snack is not one for the feint hearted (and to be honest I wouldn’t do it again!).
Following Mr Kiplings perfect example of a Battenberg cake we (this was a colab with a good friend James) carefully we dissected what was needed. A perfect balance of yellow cake to red cake, with a light splattering of jam around the outside and middle of adjoin sections, topped off with a delicious moist nutty almond marzipan covering (10kg marzipan is not cheap!).
Having finished the cake off in the early morning hours of the event our house was burgled – I think it was a surprise to the burglars as they didn’t stay long (there’s a giant living upstairs!), it did make conversations with the police that day rather interesting!