Recipe: Delicious 'V' Scottish Dundee Cake

'V' Scottish Dundee Cake.

You can have 'V' Scottish Dundee Cake using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of 'V' Scottish Dundee Cake

1. You need 180 grams of golden raisins (sultanas).
2. Prepare 125 grams of finely chopped figs.
3. It's 180 grams of currants.
4. Prepare 1 of grated zest of one lemon.
5. You need 3 tbsp of whiskey.
6. You need 8 of candied cherries quartered.
7. You need 50 grams of candied lemon peel, finely chopped.
8. It's 50 grams of candied orange peel finely chopped.
9. Prepare 250 grams of all purpose(plain)flour.
10. Prepare 1 tsp of baking powder.
11. Prepare 180 grams of butter.
12. It's of cup/125g sugar.
13. You need 1 tbsp of honey.
14. It's 3 of large eggs.
15. It's 75 ml of milk.
16. It's 1 of Blanched almonds, for decorating.
17. You need 1 of confectioners'(icing sugar) for dusting.
18. Prepare 1 of marzipan (optional) for covering.

'V' Scottish Dundee Cake step by step

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.