Battenberg Cake - a question?

Question

Hi folks,
Great stuff. Sponge cake & marzipan.
With gluey bits. - Well you know.what I mean.
Q is why is it called such ?
Has it anything to do with relations of the Royal Family, the Battenbergs ?
.Or was it just invented by some cake bod as a good idea?
Hate it or love it, there it is in all supermarkets.
Just bought two for the price of one.
£1.39

What do you reckon ?

Bob.

Answer 1

Battenberg cake (also: Battenburg cake, Window cake) is a light sponge cake which, when cut in cross section, displays a distinctive two-by-two check pattern alternately coloured pink and yellow. The cake is covered in marzipan and, when sliced, the characteristic checks are exposed to view. These coloured sections are made by dying half of the cake mixture pink, and half yellow, then cutting each resultant sponge into two long, uniform cuboids, and joining them together with a little cream, jam, or icing, to form one cake.

The origin of the name is not clear, but it is sometimes attributed to the Battenberg family, who lived in England during the late-19th century. One theory claims that the cake was created in honour of the marriage in 1884 of Queen Victoria's granddaughter to Prince Louis of Battenberg.

Battenburg markings are high-visibility yellow and blue/green/red/black fluorescent chequered vinyl squares, affixed in recent times (since 2001 or so) to the sides of Emergency service vehicles in the United Kingdom in order to make them more visible on the roads.

check this
http://recipes.bhg.com/recipes/recipedetail.jsp?recipeId=R036284

Answer 2

Apparently... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battenberg_cake