Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, 'v' scottish dundee cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first 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:
- Prepare 180 grams golden raisins (sultanas)
- Make ready 125 grams finely chopped figs
- Make ready 180 grams currants
- Get 1 grated zest of one lemon
- Take 3 tbsp whiskey
- Make ready 8 candied cherries quartered
- Take 50 grams candied lemon peel, finely chopped
- Take 50 grams candied orange peel finely chopped
- Prepare 250 grams all purpose(plain)flour
- Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
- Get 180 grams butter
- Take cup/125g sugar
- Prepare 1 tbsp honey
- Prepare 3 large eggs
- Get 75 ml milk
- Get 1 Blanched almonds, for decorating
- Make ready 1 confectioners'(icing sugar) for dusting
- Take 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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