Recipe of Award-winning 'V' Scottish Dundee Cake

'V' Scottish Dundee Cake.

Hey everyone, it's John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we're going to make a distinctive dish, 'v' scottish dundee cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 'v' scottish dundee cake using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make 'V' Scottish Dundee Cake:

1. {Prepare of golden raisins (sultanas).
2. {Take of finely chopped figs.
3. {Take of currants.
4. {Make ready of grated zest of one lemon.
5. {Prepare of whiskey.
6. {Prepare of candied cherries quartered.
7. {Get of candied lemon peel, finely chopped.
8. {Make ready of candied orange peel finely chopped.
9. {Take of all purpose(plain)flour.
10. {Prepare of baking powder.
11. {Get of butter.
12. {Get of cup/125g sugar.
13. {Prepare of honey.
14. {Prepare of large eggs.
15. {Prepare of milk.
16. {Prepare of Blanched almonds, for decorating.
17. {Take of confectioners'(icing sugar) for dusting.
18. {Get of marzipan (optional) for covering.

Instructions to make 'V' Scottish Dundee Cake:

1. Preheat oven to 180c/350f gas mark 4 grease and line a 10 inch /26cm spring-release cake pan (tin).
2. Mix the raisins (sultanas) figs and currants with the lemon zest, whiskey and candied fruits in a large bowl and leave to stand.
3. 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.
4. 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..
5. Before serving, dust with confectioners (icing) sugar and cover the sides of the cake with marzipan if wished.
6. Serves about 12.

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