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Scottish Dundee Cake The Scottish Dundee Cake is a great alternative to the rich Christmas Cake or Plum Cake. This is the cake if you want a lighter, fluffy crumb and a moist cake that works as a great holiday dessert or an everyday tea cake. What is "Authentic" Scottish Dundee Cake? Besides the flour, butter, sugar, eggs, baking powder and touch of salt, the only other ingredients in an authentic Dundee cake are raisins and/or sultanas, orange zest, almonds, and Seville marmalade.
'V' Scottish Dundee Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. 'V' Scottish Dundee Cake is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook 'v' scottish dundee cake using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make 'V' Scottish Dundee Cake:
- Get 180 grams golden raisins (sultanas)
- Get 125 grams finely chopped figs
- Prepare 180 grams currants
- Make ready 1 grated zest of one lemon
- Prepare 3 tbsp whiskey
- Prepare 8 candied cherries quartered
- Prepare 50 grams candied lemon peel, finely chopped
- Make ready 50 grams candied orange peel finely chopped
- Make ready 250 grams all purpose(plain)flour
- Take 1 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 180 grams butter
- Take cup/125g sugar
- Get 1 tbsp honey
- Prepare 3 large eggs
- Get 75 ml milk
- Prepare 1 Blanched almonds, for decorating
- Prepare 1 confectioners'(icing sugar) for dusting
- Make ready 1 marzipan (optional) for covering
The cake is distinctive alongside other rich fruit cakes by circles of blanched almonds on the surface of the cake. There are many versions of the Dundee Cake, all claiming to be "the one," but usually any lovely rich fruit cake will do the job. This Dundee cake recipe uses candied fruit peel and candied cherries to make a delicious version of a Scottish Christmas favorite. Dundee Cake is a famous traditional Scottish fruit cake which is intensely flavorful and though popular throughout the year as a tea cake is especially popular come Christmas time.
Steps to make 'V' Scottish Dundee Cake:
- Preheat oven to 180c/350f gas mark 4 grease and line a 10 inch /26cm spring-release cake pan (tin)
- Mix the raisins (sultanas) figs and currants with the lemon zest, whiskey and candied fruits in a large bowl and leave to stand
- Meanwhile, sift the flour and baking powder together, cream the butter with the sugar and honey until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the eggs and then beat in the flour, milk and soaked dried fruit. turn the batter into a prepared cake pan and smooth the top.Decorate the top of the cake with whole almonds
- Bake in oven for 30 mins, then reduce the oven temperature to 150c/300f gas mark 2 and bake for a further 90 mins. cover the top with baking parchment if it browns to quickly. cool in the pan for 15 mins then take out and leave to cool completely.
- Before serving, dust with confectioners (icing) sugar and cover the sides of the cake with marzipan if wished
- Serves about 12
This Dundee cake recipe uses candied fruit peel and candied cherries to make a delicious version of a Scottish Christmas favorite. Dundee Cake is a famous traditional Scottish fruit cake which is intensely flavorful and though popular throughout the year as a tea cake is especially popular come Christmas time. Ever since I began reading the English writer, Hazel Holt in her novels featuring Mrs. Mallory in which she'd always find time to bake Dundee cakes in the middle of solving village crimes, I've been baking Dundee. Dundee cake is a popular traditional Scottish fruit cake.
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