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Boiled Sultana Cake
Boiled Sultana Cake
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Boiled Sultana Cake

4.7
20 mins
1 hours
Easy
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Recipe Club member, Iris, has submitted this lovely recipe. Here's what she said about it: "The great thing about this cake is that it will keep for a good week and there is more eating in it than bought biscuits."

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  • Ingredients
  • Method

Ingredients

  • 125g butter
  • 1 cup Chelsea White Sugar
  • 500g sultanas
  • 1 tsp mixed spice
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • zest of 1 lemon
  • drop or two of almond vanilla essence
  • 1 cup boiled water
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder

Chelsea Products in Recipe

White Sugar

White Sugar

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Method

Line a 20cm cake tin with baking paper. Preheat oven to 150°C

Into a large pot boil butter, Chelsea White Sugar, sultanas, mixed spice, baking soda, lemon zest, almond or vanilla essence and boiled water for around 10 minutes, allow to cool.

Once cool, add (in order) the beaten eggs then sifted flour, baking powder and essence. Mixed until just combined.
Pour into the cake tin. Mixture should fill 2/3 of the tin.
Bake for 1 hour at 150°C or until skewer inserted into the middle of cake comes out clean.
Allow to cool on a cake rack before cutting, if you can wait!
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