When making dense fruit cakes such as a Christmas cake, the batter needs to be heavy enough for the dried fruit and nuts to be suspended in it; if it's too thin the fruit will sink to the bottom.
About Plum Cake Recipe | Cake Recipe: Plum cake refers to the variety of cakes made with fruits and dry fruits. Although this cake does not contain plum, the fruit, as the name may suggest but plum ...
Preheat your oven to 180°C and line a 2lb loaf tin with baking parchment. Cream the butter and sugar until the mixture is light and fluffy and pale in colour. Slowly add in the eggs, if the ...
Add the dried fruit and orange zest. Bring to the boil, then remove from the heat. Leave to cool a little, then beat in the eggs and fold in the dry ingredients. Scrape into the prepared cake tin ...
Preheat the oven to 300°F. Grease a round 9- or 10-inch cake pan, and line bottom and sides with several layers of waxed paper. 2. In a large bowl, with an electric mixer on high, beat the butter and ...
When that failed, yet another was baked - "an oblong fruit cake", McMahon recalled - this time containing a blank key and a set of files so it could be shaped to fit the lock. The blank was given ...
Olive Oil gives not only gives this fruit cake an incredible tenderness and moistness (no more dry horrid fruit cake!) but it also lends a gorgeous fruity herbaceous flavour that lifts a “plain ...
This apricot cake has cropped up at many special events in our family over the years, including when my mother made it for my wedding and my sister’s 21st. It’s always lovely and moist because ...