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The Great British Bake Off is back, and so that we low carbers don't feel left out, Sow & Arrow have come up with a low carb version:

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Great British Keto Bake Off: How to have your cake and eat it too

The GBKBO has kicked off and as its cake week the Sow & Arrow team have been hard at work creating their perfect Battenberg. Rich Vanilla and scrumptious Strawberry cake held together with our brilliant Apricot Jam, wrapped in delicate marzipan.

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https://www.sowandarrow.com/post/gr...-and-eat-it-too

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You will need:

Two Loaf tins

Two mixing bowls

Ingredients

Sponge:

180g Erythritol

120g Softened Butter

200g Soft Cheese

250g Almond Flour

2tsp Baking Powder

Pinch of Salt

4 Eggs

Combine the erythritol, ground almonds, soft cheese, softened butter, baking powder and salt until a smooth batter forms, mix in the beaten eggs.

Split the mixture evenly between two bowls. ready to create two separate cake flavours. Add

5ml of Pure Vanilla Extract to one of the cake mixes and

22g of Freeze-dried Strawberry Powder to the other.

Pre-heat the oven to 160 degrees. Line and grease two regular loaf tins. Pour in the vanilla mix into one tin and the vanilla sponge into the other. Bake for 25-30 minutes.

Marzipan:

To make the marzipan, add all ingredients into a food processor rich as a MagiMix and combine until a ball forms (see the video)

400g Ground Almonds

120g Erythritol

4tbs Water

1tsp Almond Extract

To stick the the cake and marzipan layers: Keto Apricot Jam

Once the cake has cooled, gently assemble the cake as per the video, using Keto apricot jam to adhere the sides.