DUNDEE CAKE

DUNDEE CAKE

Ingredients

• Flour: 1100 gm
• Butter: 600 gm
• Castor sugar: 800 gm
• Eggs: 20
• Blanched almonds: 100 gm
• Mixed peel: 220 gm
• Mixed fruit soaked in rum: 600 gm
• Orange juice: 5
• Baking powder: 5 tsp
• Rum: 50 ml
  
  
  Method
  
  
  *Break the eggs and separate the egg white from the yolk, whisk the whites and keep aside.
  *Cream (make creamy by beating) the butter and yolks, continue to cream while gradually adding sugar to the mixture till the mix becomes light and fluffy.
  *Sieve the flour with baking powder and roll the fruit in it.
  *Fold the flour mix into the creamed mix along with the orange juice.
  *Now fold in the egg whites and pour the batter into with blanched and peeled almonds.
  *Bake it at 170 c for 80 minutes.
  *Brush the cake with rum after baking.