Traditional English Wedding Fruit Cake Recipe

Place the butter and sugar into a large baking bowl.

Traditional english wedding fruit cake recipe. Once the cake is ready and the wedding approaches the top tiers of the cake are actually saved and preserved. The cake is hand made still following the original recipe and using no artificial colours or flavours. 3 4 cup 110 g mixed candied peel finely chopped 1 cup glace candied cherries halved 3 1 3 cups 300 g all purpose flour.

Line an 8 inch round cake tin with greaseproof paper or baking parchment. Carefully brush the edges of the roses with pink dust. Preheat the oven to 160c 325f gas 1.

1 2 teaspoon ground cinnamon. My mother baked this for my wedding and it sure is delicious and also a great christmas cake. Grease a 20cm 8inch round or an 18cm 7inch square.

Using an electric hand whisk or fork cream the butter into the sugar until light smooth and creamy. This is my mother s very old recipe at least 60 years old. Repeat the process until you have made about 15 roses.

3 1 2 cups 525 g currants. When it comes to serving the cake some royals don t actually serve the cake during the wedding reception. This is a very long recipe but well worth the trouble.

1 1 2 cups 225 g raisins. You can substitute a cup of drained maraschino cherries for the candied cherries if you like. Beat 1 egg into the creamed butter then beat in a 1 4 of the flour.