Description
Traditional Scottish Dundee Cake is a light Fruit cake variety that does not require soaking the dry fruits in alcohol for months and is ideal for last-minute Christmas Baking
Ingredients
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To make the Cake:
- 225g All-Purpose Flour (1 and a half Cup)
- 1 Tsp. Baking Powder
- 4 Egg
- 175g White Butter
- 150g Brown Sugar
- 50g Candied Peel (Orange and Lemon)
- 100g Raisin
- 100g Currents
- 100g Sultana
- 50g Glazed Cherries
- 4 Tbsp. Whiskey
- 4 Tbsp. Orange Juice
For the Glaze:
- 100g Almond
- 1/2 cup Milk
- 1 Tbsp. Castor Sugar
Instructions
- Take Almonds in a bowl and pour boiling water over the almonds and cover the bowl for 5 minutes.
- After 5 minutes take the almonds out and rub them using your hands to peel the skin.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C for 10 minutes.
- Line a Round cake tin with Parchment paper.
- Sift Baking Powder and Flour together twice.
- Take Butter at room temperature in a bowl and start beating it to cream.
- Add Brown Sugar and beat till the sugar dissolves completely.
- Now add Eggs one by one and mix using the beater.
- Start incorporating the Flour into three batches and mix lightly following the cut and fold method.
- Now add Candid Peel (Orange and Lemon), Raisin, Currents, Sultana, Glazed Cherries, Whiskey, and Orange Juice, and mix.
- The mixture should be of pouring consistency.*
- Pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin.
- Bake the Cake for 45 minutes at 150 decree C and take it out of the oven.
- Decorate the top of the cake with Blanched Almonds in a way to create a floral design.
- Again bake the cake at 150 degrees C or at the lowest temperature of your oven for 1 hour or till the cake is browned from the top and cooked from inside.
- Take the cake out of the oven.
- Boil the Milk along with the Castor Sugar and brush the cake with the mixture.
- Bake the cake again for 2-3 minutes at 180 Degrees C and take it out of the oven.
- Cool the Dundee cake on the wire rack and cover it with Parchment paper and wait for 2-3 days before serving it.
Notes
- If you want to make Alcohol free version of the Dundee cake, just replace Whiskey with an equal amount of Orange Juice.
- If not available replace Sultana with an equal quantity of Current.
- Baking time varies from Oven to Oven, keep that in consideration while baking the cake.
- This cake requires slow baking.
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 1 hour 50 mins
- Category: Cake
- Method: baking
- Cuisine: Scottish
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 100g
- Calories: 217
- Sugar: 14g
- Sodium: 24mg
- Fat: 10.5g
- Saturated Fat: 4.9g
- Carbohydrates: 26.6g
- Fiber: 1.3g
- Protein: 3.9g
- Cholesterol: 51mg
