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Easter Cake Recipe

Choux pastry is a form of light pastry used to make profiteroles, eclairs or any other dish requiring a light pastry. Its raising agent is the high water content, which boils during cooking, puffing out the pastry but leaving a certain amount of texture inside the pastry. Unlike puff pastry, it uses eggs.

Ingredients:

  • 175g (6oz)margarine
  • 175 g (6oz) caster sugar
  • Grated rind of ½ orange
  • 4 eggs, size 3
  • 200g (7oz) plain flour; sieved with
  • 1 x 5ml spoon (1 tsp) mixed spice
  • 175g (6oz) currants
  • 175g (6oz) sultanas
  • i75g (6oz) raisins
  • SOg (2oz) glace cherries, quartered
  • 75g (3oz) mixed cut peel
  • 450g (1 lb) marzipan


Method:

Place all ingredients except for marzipan in a large mixing bowl and beat thoroughly until well mixed. Dice 1/2 of the marzipan and stir into cake mixture. Spoon into greased and lined 20cm (8 inch) cake tin and smooth top.

Bake in preheated oven 150~C, 300~C for 3-3&1/2 hours. Leave in tin for 15 minutes. Turn out and cool on wire tray. Roll out the next 1/2 marzipan to a round to cover the top of the cake and use remaining marzipan to make a decoration.

  • Servings 16-20
  • Preparation Time 25 mins
  • Cooking Time 3 hrs

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