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Half Pound Cake
Veg
CD CBF
170mins
plus cooling
Makes 1 x 20cm/8inch cake
Cold Vegetarian Dried
Fruit Nuts Alcohol
Cakes Baked Fayre
Ingredients:
225g/8oz Caster Sugar
225g/8oz softened Butter
4 Eggs, beaten
225g/8oz Plain Flour
225g/8oz Seedless Raisins
100g/4oz Currants
100g/4oz Sultanas
100g/4oz Glace Cherries
1/2 teasp Ground Mixed Spice
1 tbsp Brandy (Cognac)
12 Walnut Halves to decorate
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 150C, 300F, Gas mark 2 and grease and line a 20cm/8-inch cake tin.
2. In a large mixing bowl, cream together the sugar and butter until pale and fluffy.
3.
Add the beaten eggs, a little at a time, mixing well after each addition.
4.
Fold in the flour, all the fruit, mixed spice and brandy and mix well.
5.
Turn the mixture into the prepared cake tin, level the top and decorate the top
6.
Bake for 2-1/2 hours, covering the top
with a sheet of parchment or greaseproof
7.
Leave in the tin for about 30 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack. Leave
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