Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, 'v' scottish dundee cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 'v' scottish dundee cake using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make 'V' Scottish Dundee Cake:
- Get 180 grams golden raisins (sultanas)
- Make ready 125 grams finely chopped figs
- Get 180 grams currants
- Take 1 grated zest of one lemon
- Make ready 3 tbsp whiskey
- Get 8 candied cherries quartered
- Prepare 50 grams candied lemon peel, finely chopped
- Make ready 50 grams candied orange peel finely chopped
- Take 250 grams all purpose(plain)flour
- Get 1 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 180 grams butter
- Make ready cup/125g sugar
- Prepare 1 tbsp honey
- Make ready 3 large eggs
- Take 75 ml milk
- Make ready 1 Blanched almonds, for decorating
- Get 1 confectioners'(icing sugar) for dusting
- Make ready 1 marzipan (optional) for covering
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
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