I was away last week, and I bought a magazine to read on the train called
Cake Craft & Decoration. Mostly it has cake projects to make that concentrate on modelling figures or flowers and things, but it also has some recipes in it, so I've made one of them - a Glacé Fruits and Nuts cake. it's supposed to be a lighter alternative to a normal fruit cake. Also it has lots of interesting dried fruits in it - cherries, angelica, crustallised ginger, pineapple, apricots and mixed peel. So it should be very colourful!
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| The fruits and nuts all chopped up together |
It did take quite a while to chop up all the interesting fruits though, not to mention the almonds. Note to self: next time a recipe says 'blanched almonds' and wants you to chop them all up, just buy chopped ones!
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| The mixture all together |
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| In the multi-sized cake tin |
It's eight inches square, so I can practice bigger cakes as so far all the ones I've iced have been six inches or less.
After two and half hours in the oven:
It could probably do with coming out a little earlier next time, but i was distracted by cooking dinner!
It could probably do with coming out a little earlier next time, but i was distracted by cooking dinner!
re. chopping almonds, I normally get out the pestle & mortar (it's actually better than the food processor)
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a cunning plan. Doesn't that end with ground almonds though, not chopped?
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