Dundee Cake

Name: Dundee Cake
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 55 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Scottish
Ingredients: 200g butter, softened; 200g dark brown sugar; 4 eggs; 300g plain flour; 1 tsp baking powder; 1 tsp mixed spice; zest of 1 orange and 1 lemon; 500g mixed dried fruit; 75g glacé cherries, halved; 75g whole blanched almonds, to top

A rich, fruited Scottish cake, baked slowly and topped generously with whole blanched almonds arranged in rings.

Total time

115 min

Prep

25 min

Cook

90 min

Difficulty

medium

Cuisine

Scottish

vegetarian

Ingredients

200gbutter, softened

200gdark brown sugar

4eggs

300gplain flour

1 tspbaking powder

1 tspmixed spice

zest of 1orange and 1 lemon

500gmixed dried fruit

75gglacé cherries, halved

75gwhole blanched almonds, to top

Instructions

Beat butter and sugar until pale. Add eggs one at a time.

Fold in flour, baking powder, spice, zests, dried fruit and cherries.

Pour into a deep 20cm tin lined with baking paper.

Arrange almonds over the top.

Bake at 160°C for 1 hour 30 minutes. Cool in tin.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.

Calories

1106

Protein

18.3g

Fat

46.7g

Carbs

158.3g

Fiber

9.7g

Sodium

208mg

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