Eccles cake

Name: Eccles cake
Prep time: 2 h 5 min
Cook time: 2 h 5 min
Total time: 2 h 5 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 250 grams pack butter, softened, plus extra for greasing; 250 grams soft light brown sugar; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 4 larges eggs; 100 grams plain flour; 250 grams self-raising flour; 100 grams buttermilk; 2 eating apples, peeled, cored and diced to about 1cm pieces; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1 teaspoon mixed spice; 0 teaspoons ground cloves; 1 zest lemon; 2 Tbsps melted butter; 2 Tbsps soft light brown sugar; 85 grams currant; 85 grams raisin; 50 grams mixed peel; 85 grams icing sugar, sifted; 1 zest and juice lemon; 3 sugar cubes, roughly crushed

Eccles cake requires roughly 2 hours and 5 minutes from start to finish. This recipe serves 8. One portion of this dish contains about 10g of protein, 32g of fat, and It works well as an affordable dessert. This recipe from BBC Good Food requires peel, brown sugar, butter, and eggs. It is a good option if you're following a lacto ovo vegetarian diet. Eccles Cakes, Eccles cakes, and Eccles Cakes are very similar to this recipe.

Instructions

Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas

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Grease and line a deep 20cm cake tin with baking parchment.

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Cake Form

Mix together the filling ingredients and set aside.

Put butter, sugar and vanilla in a bowl and whisk until pale. Beat in the eggs, then fold in the flours, buttermilk and apples. Spoon half the mixture into the tin. Scatter over filling, leaving a 2.5cm clear border all around the edge. Spoon remaining mixture on top, starting by dolloping round the edges, then moving into the middle.

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Buttermilk

Vanilla

Apple

Butter

Sugar

Egg

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Whisk

Bowl

Bake for 1 hr 25 mins or until a skewer poked in comes out clean. Cool in the tin.

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Skewers

Mix the icing sugar with enough lemon juice to make a runny-ish icing.

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Powdered Sugar

Lemon Juice

Icing

Remove cake from the tin, drizzle over the icing, then scatter with crushed sugar cubes and lemon zest.

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Sugar Cubes

Lemon Zest

Icing

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Recommended wine: Cream Sherry, Moscato Dasti, Port

Cake on the menu? Try pairing with Cream Sherry, Moscato d'Asti, and Port. A common wine pairing rule is to make sure your wine is sweeter than your food. Delicate desserts go well with Moscato d'Asti, nutty desserts with cream sherry, and caramel or chocolate desserts pair well with port. The NV Johnson Estate Cream Sherry with a 5 out of 5 star rating seems like a good match. It costs about 19 dollars per bottle.