Tottenham Cake is a simple, tasty, light sponge with bright pink icing cut into squares or rectangles. Traditionally the pink icing got its colour from local mulberry berries. Now it's more often from pink food colouring or possibly from raspberries or another berry that produces a pink colour. We love this easy recipe!
Have you ever seen an ordinary ordinary vanilla sponge cake look more extraordinary? Try out Mary Berry's Tottenham Cake twist with white icing and lots of colourful sprinkles also called the Old School recipe.
Tottenham Cake is a simple, tasty, light sponge with bright pink icing cut into squares or rectangles. Traditionally the pink icing got its colour from local mulberry berries. Now it's more often from pink food colouring or possibly from raspberries or another berry that produces a pink colour. We love this easy recipe!
Tottenham Cake is a simple, tasty, light sponge with bright pink icing cut into squares or rectangles. Traditionally the pink icing got its colour from local mulberry berries. Now it's more often from pink food colouring or possibly from raspberries or another berry that produces a pink colour. We love this easy recipe!
There is a sweet story surrounding the origin of this old-fashioned traybake. It was created in the 1800s by a Quaker baker called Henry Chalkley in Tottenham, North London, as a cheap treat for local children. The vivid pink icing was traditionally made using mulberries from trees in the Quaker burial ground. Here we use the rather more easily found (and less creepy) raspberries, plus a splash of food colouring
In 1901, pieces of Tottenham cake were given away to children from the London neighbourhood of Tottenham to celebrate the victory of the Tottenham Hotspur in the Cup. The pink icing is traditionally coloured with mulberry juice and sometimes the cake is finished with hundreds and thousands or desiccated coconut. The version here is the version that is still sold today – a simple cake, but also delicious.
Tottenham Cake is a simple, tasty, light sponge with bright pink icing cut into squares or rectangles. Traditionally the pink icing got its colour from local mulberry berries. Now it's more often from pink food colouring or possibly from raspberries or another berry that produces a pink colour. We love this easy recipe!
Bake up a timeless British classic with this Tottenham cake recipe! This lovely single-layer traybake has been a teatime staple for over 100 years. Our easy recipe produces a feather-light, moist vanilla sponge topped with a gloriously cheerful pink icing made from either blueberries or raspberries.
