Battenberg cake is a rectangular sponge cake made from two separately baked loaves — one plain, one tinted pink — cut into strips, reassembled in a two-by-two checkerboard pattern using apricot jam as adhesive, and wrapped entirely in a sheet of rolled marzipan. The cross-section, revealed when sliced, shows the alternating pink and yellow squares […]

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Bolo formigueiro is a Brazilian sponge cake distinguished by dark chocolate shavings folded directly into the batter before baking, so that every cross-section of the finished cake shows a scatter of small dark flecks throughout the crumb. The name means anthill cake — formigueiro coming from formiga, ant — and refers to those flecks, which […]

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