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Battenberg cake
noun · first attested late 19th century
The checkerboard cake is named for a small German town almost nobody visits.
A British sponge cake baked in pink and yellow squares, assembled into a checkerboard and wrapped in marzipan.
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- late 19th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Battenberg
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Battenberg cake
The usual account ties it to the 1884 marriage of a granddaughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of Battenberg, whose title came from a town in Hesse. The family anglicized itself to Mountbatten during the First World War; the cake kept the German name.
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