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%Dundee Cake recipe debjanir rannaghar

Traditional Scottish Dundee Cake! Recipe and beyond!

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

Units Scale

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

  1. Take Almonds in a bowl and pour boiling water over the almonds and cover the bowl for 5 minutes.
  2. After 5 minutes take the almonds out and rub them using your hands to peel the skin.
  3. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C for 10 minutes.
  4. Line a Round cake tin with Parchment paper.
  5. Sift Baking Powder and Flour together twice.
  6. Take Butter at room temperature in a bowl and start beating it to cream.
  7. Add Brown Sugar and beat till the sugar dissolves completely.
  8. Now add Eggs one by one and mix using the beater.
  9. Start incorporating the Flour into three batches and mix lightly following the cut and fold method.
  10. Now add Candid Peel (Orange and Lemon), Raisin, Currents, Sultana, Glazed Cherries, Whiskey, and Orange Juice, and mix.
  11. The mixture should be of pouring consistency.*
  12. Pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin.
  13. Bake the Cake for 45 minutes at 150 decree C and take it out of the oven.
  14. Decorate the top of the cake with Blanched Almonds in a way to create a floral design.
  15. 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.
  16. Take the cake out of the oven.
  17. Boil the Milk along with the Castor Sugar and brush the cake with the mixture.
  18. Bake the cake again for 2-3 minutes at 180 Degrees C and take it out of the oven.
  19. 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

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