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Dundee cake eggless/scottish christmas cake

5 from 1 vote
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Total Time 1 hour
Course baking, Snack, sweet
Cuisine scottish, western
Servings 5

Ingredients
  

  • All purpose flour/maida - 112 gm

  • Almond powder(roughly powdered) - 15 gm
  • Baking powder - 1/4 tsp
  • salt a pinch
  • Cinnamon powder - a big pinch
  • Butter(unsalted) - 85 gm
  • Castor sugar - 85 gm
  • Curd - 90 gm
  • Orange juice - 15 ml
  • Milk - 15 ml
  • Orange rind - 11/4 tsp
  • Orange marmalade - 40 gm
  • Chopped(broken) cashews - 40 gm
  • Black current - 42 gm
  • Sultanas - 85 gm
  • Blanched almonds - 40 gm

Instructions
 

  • Line 6 inch tin with parchment both at the bottom and sides after greasing it with butter.
    2.Keep ready with all ingredients
    3.Take a bowl with sultanas and blackcurrant add warmed up orange juice mix well and keep it for marinate for 20-25 minutes.
    4.Take bowl add flour to a sieve with baking powder salt and cinnamon powder mix the sieved flour.
    5.To this add almond powder and mix.
    6.In-between take a bowl with sugar and butter beat well till fluffy to this add half curd with orange zest and marmalade beat.
    7.Add half of the flour and beat.
    8.Add rest of the flour to the fruit mixture and mix.
    9Add this to the beaten wet ingredient with broken cashews fold in with a spatula.
    10.Now add milk and bring to needed consistency as shown
    11.Transfer to the baking tin level it.
    12.Now arrange the blanched halved almonds in circular order.
    13.In-between preheat oven at 170 degrees for 10 minutes.
    14.Place it to the preheated oven and bake for 40-45 minutes till skewer inserted comes out clean.
    15.Take out and let it Cool for 10 minutes.
    16.Remove parchment and when cool cut and enjoy.
    Dundee cake eggless/scottish christmas cake

Notes

  • Oven temperature differs from oven to oven so bake accordingly.
  • The fruits should be soaked at least for 20 minutes and the juice should be warm.
  • I missed showing adding marmalade in the picture and video which is very important so please be noted.
  • Don’t miss to coat fruit in flour so that when baking the fruits it will not sink.
  • The batter for this cake is thick and dropping consistency.
  • I baked it for 15 minutes but time differs  don’t miss to preheat oven before baking.
Keyword baking, cake, dessert,sweet, easy, eggless, egglessbaking, fruitcake