Best Dundee Cake To Buy

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Best dundee cake to buy.

Buy send cakes online order now. The history of dundee cake there are some varying accounts but food historians believe that the dundee cake dates back to the 1600 s and is attributed to mary queen of scots who. One best enjoyed on a cold day with a cup of tea. The cake keeps well for a few weeks in an airtight container.

Dundee cake keeps very well in an airtight tin and tastes better if it s kept a few days before cutting. There are many versions of the dundee cake all claiming to be the one but usually any lovely rich fruit cake will do the job. Allow it to cool before taking it out of the tin. A traditional dundee cake comes from dundee scotland.

It s said to have come about in the nineteenth century and was the creation of the kelliers the family behind kellier s marmalade as a way to use up the leftover orange peels from their production of marmalade. As a traditional dundee cake befits it is filled with moist raisins tart orange peel exotic nutmeg and a generous portion of almonds. The cake is distinctive alongside other rich fruit cakes by circles of blanched almonds on the surface of the cake. As far a cakes go like most fruit cakes dundee cake is a heavy cake.

You can buy our dundee cake in a luxury box dundee slab cake with individually wrapped cake. I ve made rather a few of these cakes over the last couple of weeks and i can also confirm dundee cake makes a handy breakfast on the run too it has marmalade in it after all. Place the cake near the centre of the oven and bake for 1 hours or until the centre is firm and springy to touch. A true scottish dundee cake hasn t been altered to taste like the mainstream fruit cakes we all know instead it has a very unique flavor all to its own.