Recipe #103 - Dundee CakeThe British obsession with dried fruit is kind of baffling to me. I watch a

Recipe #103 -Dundee Cake

The British obsession with dried fruit is kind of baffling to me. I watch a lot of the Great British Bake Off and they’re constantly using them in their bakes. I mean, they’re okay, but the texture is just kind of chewy and unpleasant. I rather baked goods be a soft, melt-in-my-mouth experience.

All that being said, I do look forward to eating this again for breakfast tomorrow. It has a very “mature” and mild taste that will go well with my “just-woke-up” palate. In the game, they make these look like little pastries/buns for some reason:

They look more like brioche than cakes so I had no idea what I was getting into. I was very excited to find out that they were fruit cake because the games don’t give me a lot of opportunities for Christmas tie-in recipes. 

Making the cake was extremely simple, the hard parts were finding the ingredients and setting up the almond decoration.  You might need to improvise with some bits if you’re working with an American grocery store like mine. I’ll make notes of any changes I made below.

Recipe:

Here is my source

-6oz softened butter

-6oz light brown sugar

-3 tbsp orange marmalade

-3 free-range eggs, beaten

-8oz self-raising flour

-1oz ground almonds (I substituted ¼ tsp of almond extract)

-1 tsp ground mixed spice (I substituted pumpkin pie spice)

-14oz mixed dried fruit (I had to buy it all separately and mix it together)

-3oz maraschino cherries, halved

-2 tbsp whisky or milk (I did 1 tbsp milk and 1 tbsp whisky)

-11/2oz blanched almonds (I had to use almond slivers)

-1 tsp granulated or caster sugar

That’s all for now. I did manage to get my physical copy of Midnight in Salem and I’m very excited to get cracking on the recipes from the long awaited game 33!