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Dundee Cake

  by Gail Moffat
Preperation time: 30 mins
Cooking time: 2 hours
Serves: 16

Recipe Ingredients
175g butter;
175g soft light brown sugar;
3 eggs;
225g plain flour;
2tsp baking powder;
1tsp ground cinnamon;
1/2tsp ground cloves;
1/4tsp freshly grated nutmeg;
225g sultanas;
175g glace cherries;
115g mixed chopped peel;
50g blanched almonds, roughly chopped;
grated rind of 1 lemon;
75g whole blanched alomonds, to decorate.
 
Recipe Method
Cream the butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl. Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition.

Sift the flour, baking powder and spices together into a bowl. Fold into the egg mixture along with the sultanas, cherries, peel, chopped almonds and lemon rind. Mix until evenly blended. Pour the mixture into a greased and lined 20cm, deep cake tin.

Smooth the surface. And decorate with the whole alomonds in decreasing circles over the whole top of the cake. Bake at 160c/gas3 for about 2-2 1/4 hours, until a skewer comes out clean.

Leave to cool in the tin for 30 mins, then carefully remove the cake and cool completely on a wire rack.

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