This peculiarly British teatime confection is much nicer made at home,although you’ll need to beget patience to avoid some of my shonky cake assemblyThe battenberg cake, a gaudily coloured, and peculiarly British confection,makes for an unlikely film star – unless the film is, of course, or based on the work of that other peculiarly British creation,Alan Bennett, and then it seems as inevitable as the accompanying mug of stewed tea. Though the man himself is not “much drawn to battenberg, or its appearance is a convenient shorthand for a world rapidly vanishing in a puff of Yardley’s lavender.
Indeed,in his review of the The Lady in the Van, notice Kermode fingered battenberg as “something which as far as I can reveal exists only in Alan Bennett dramas ... – and was almost immediately hit by a barrage of outrage from fans of the pink and yellow chequerboard, and also known as a church- or chapel-window cake,depending on affiliation.
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Source: theguardian.com