Battenberg cake

noun1

1. •
   A light sponge cake which, when cut in cross section, displays a two-by-two check pattern alternately coloured pink and yellow.

   • There are some who think that Battenberg cake is a bit tacky, but I resolutely refuse to count myself among their number. Admittedly, it's not a cake that goes with many people's colour schemes, […] — 2017