Dundee Cakes

Total Time: 1 hr 45 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup raisins
• 1 cup raisins (golden)
• 1 cup currants
• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon mace (or nutmeg)
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup butter (or margarine softened)
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 tablespoon lemon rind (grated)
• 1 tablespoon orange rind (grated)
• 1/2 cup almonds (whole blanched)

Recipe

• 1 grease very well and flour one 2-cup mold and three 5x31/4x2-inch loaf pans. tap out any excess flour.
• 2 toss the raisins and the currants with 1/4 cup of the flour. sift the remaining 2 cups of flour with the cinnamon, mace or nutmeg, baking powder and salt onto wax paper.
• 3 beat the butter or margarine and sugar until light and fluffy in a large bowl with an electric mixer at high speed. add the eggs one at a time, beating just until well blended. beat in the grated lemon and orange rinds. add the flour, 1/3 at a time, beating just until smooth. fold in the floured raisins and currents.
• 4 spoon the batter into the prepared pans, filling 2/3 full. arrange the whole almonds in a decorative pattern on top of the loaves.
• 5 bake in a preheated slow oven 325 f for 45 minutes for the loaf pans, or 1 hour, 15 minutes for the 2 cup mold, or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. cool in the pans on the wire racks for 10 minutes. loosen around edges with a long thin-bladed knife,then invert onto racks and cool completely. wrap each cake tightly in heavy-duty aluminum foil. store in an airtight container for up to 1 month, or label, date and freeze.
• 6 brush cakes with crystal glaze #230997 before giving. decorate with additional almonds and angelica strips if you wish.
• 7 note: you can bake this batter in one 8-9-inch round or a square pan too. grease very well. line with brown paper. bake in a preheated oven 350 f until the cake shrinks from the sides of the pan. let cool for 15 minutes. turn out of the pan onto a cake rack. peel off the paper completely.