our wedding cake

Latest Articles

our wedding cake

Downsizer Forum Index -> Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing

Author

Message

James

Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Posts: 2866
Location: York

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 08 12:13 am Post subject: our wedding cake

I made this cake for our wedding a few weeks ago. Its really tasty- like a fruit cake, but a bit gooey-er, while still keeping a soft, light texture. Its an adaptation of Delia Smith's Sticky Date Cake.

8 oz raisins
1 lb chopped dates
12 sultanas
8 oz chopped un-sulphited dried apricots
1 lb 4oz salted butter (save the wrapping papers)
1 pint water
2 large tins of sweetened condensed milk
5 oz plain white flour
5 oz strong white flour
10 oz strong wholemeal flour
1.5 tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 heaped tsp mixed spice
4 heaped tsp cocoa powder
2 large Tbsp marmalade

160 c (fan oven)

Bring fruit, marmalade, water, butter & sweetened condensed milk to boil, boil for 3 minutes, then put into very large mixing bowl & let cool.

Sift in the dry ingredients & mix well.

Put the mix into an oiled & greaseproof-paper lined 8" square tin.

Bake for 1.5 hours, then cover the top of the cake with the butter wrapping papers then a double layer of foil. Bake for a further 1.5 hours, by which time the cake should should be done (skewer comes out clean). Total bake time = 3 hrs @160c

Leave in tin until warm but no longer hot, then put on rack to completely cool.

Put in tin to mature for 5 days.

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 08 7:59 am Post subject:
Sounds yummy . I'm intrigued by the 12 sultanas though - if you put 13 in does it spoil the recipe?

Penny Outskirts

Joined: 18 Sep 2005
Posts: 23385
Location: Planet, not on the....

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 08 8:44 am Post subject:
It's a very specific flavour, obviously.

jamanda
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35137
Location: Devon

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 08 8:46 am Post subject:
My guess is it should read 12oz.

lottie

Joined: 11 Aug 2005
Posts: 5059
Location: ceredigion

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 08 8:47 am Post subject:
That would make an interesting Christmas cake recipe---I'll give it a go p.s---am I right in assuming it's 12 oz sultanas?

James

Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Posts: 2866
Location: York

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 08 9:01 am Post subject:

marigold wrote:

I'm intrigued by the 12 sultanas though - if you put 13 in does it spoil the recipe?

lottie wrote:

That would make an interesting Christmas cake recipe---I'll give it a go
p.s---am I right in assuming it's 12 oz sultanas?

yes, it'd make a good christmas cake I think.

And yes, it's 12 oz

Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 15922
Location: Earth

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 08 9:44 am Post subject:
So when's the wedding, James, or did I miss that?

Silas

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 6848
Location: Staffordshire

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 08 11:26 am Post subject:
And which of these ingredients acts as the contraceptive then?

James

Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Posts: 2866
Location: York

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 08 11:46 am Post subject:

wedding was on October 4. Its a testiment to the cake that by October 5 when the last guest left we hardly had any left for ourselves. Which is great becuase when I go to weddings I so often see piles of cake lying around going to waste.

Not sure I'd trust the contraceptive properties of this cake, Silas. I've been making it now (the cake, that is...) for a few years and have a healthy noisy son aproaching a year old ....

I've got a picture of it iced that I tried to upload, but have been having problems, will try again tonight mayby.

Silas

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 6848
Location: Staffordshire

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 08 12:06 pm Post subject:

James wrote:

Well good luck and congratulations.

A friend told me that wedding cake was the best contaceptive in the world, I wonder what he meant by that

	Downsizer Forum Index -> Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing	All times are GMT
Page 1 of 1

View Latest Posts