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In the case of Scottish Dundee Cake the vast majority of the recipes out there are really just an English fruit cake with the almonds across the top to make it "look" like a Dundee cake. But the traditional version of Scotland's prized Dundee cake is something quite different. A traditional Dundee cake comes from Dundee, Scotland.
To get started with this particular 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:
- Prepare 180 grams golden raisins (sultanas)
- Prepare 125 grams finely chopped figs
- Take 180 grams currants
- Make ready 1 grated zest of one lemon
- Prepare 3 tbsp whiskey
- Prepare 8 candied cherries quartered
- Take 50 grams candied lemon peel, finely chopped
- Prepare 50 grams candied orange peel finely chopped
- Prepare 250 grams all purpose(plain)flour
- Take 1 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 180 grams butter
- Take cup/125g sugar
- Make ready 1 tbsp honey
- Make ready 3 large eggs
- Get 75 ml milk
- Take 1 Blanched almonds, for decorating
- Make ready 1 confectioners'(icing sugar) for dusting
- Prepare 1 marzipan (optional) for covering
Dundee cake is one of the most famous cakes in Scottish baking traditions. Today, Dundee cake remains one of the most popular Scottish food and drink specialties - alongside shortbread. Fold everything together gently, then stir in the dried fruits and mixed peel. Dundee cake is a traditional Scottish fruit cake with a rich flavour.
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
The cake is often made with currants, sultanas and almonds; sometimes, fruit peel may be added to it. The cake originated in nineteenth-century Scotland, and was originally made as a mass-produced cake by the marmalade company Keiller's marmalade. Keiller's first mass-produced the cake commercially and have been claimed to be. Scotland has developed a culinary repertoire of exceptional quality of cakes and biscuits, when it comes to cake baking it seems the Scottish have have a lot to share. Dundee Cake You'll probably never hear the Dalai Lama say 'Oh, I could murder a piece of cheesecake.' After all, as the fourteenth incarnation of the Buddha, he lives a.
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