One of Florek’s favourite sweet treats. Every now and then he picks it from the shelf in Sainsbury’s, so I thought maybe I can make it.  Found a recipe in February’s GF, bought another tin to make it more convenient and made it this afternoon. I have to say I’m not stunned by the taste, but I like the way it looks plus the man is happy, so mission accomplished.

It took a long time to prepare the square tin, line it with kitchen foil divided in half, then lined again with baking paper. But it was worth it, the sponges  baked at the same time and came out easily.

For the sponges KA mixed 175 g of soft butter and caster sugar, 3 eggs, 50 g of ground almonds, 140 g of self raising flour, 1/2 tsp of baking powder and same amount of almond extract(£4 for a tiny bottle, not a great value for money). Half of the mixture went into one side of the tin, the other half was mixed with Dr Oetker’s pink food colouring and went into the other half. It all baked for 30 mins in 180 degrees until the stick came out clean.

Once cooled, I cut them into 4 long, exact, rectangular cakes, brushed them generously with warm apricot jam and placed on a ready rolled white marzipan, also brushed with apricot jam. Finally, more marzipan went onto the cake, tightly,a bit of crimping around the base and that’s that.  Sugar galore.