Scottish Christmas Cake

Dundee cake is a traditional Scottish Christmas cake, or a cake with dried fruit and almonds. To prepare it, we need the following ingredients:

– 225 g of flour
– 100 g of almonds without the skin
– 100 g ground almonds
– 180 g of soft butter
– 180 g of brown sugar
– 1 orange peel
– 3 spoons of apricot jam
– 1 teaspoon of baking powder
– ¼ teaspoon of salt
– 3 eggs
– 2 tablespoons of milk
– 600 g of dried fruit cut into pieces (raisins can also be used)

For the topping we need:
– 1 tablespoon of milk
– 2 teaspoons of powdered sugar

Pour boiling water over the almonds and let them stand for 5 minutes. Then drain them. Add sugar to the whipped butter and beat until you get a light mixture. We grate orange peel. Stir the orange peel and apricot jam into the butter. Lightly beat the eggs and mix them into the mixture. Mix flour with baking powder and salt. Mix it with the other ingredients and add ground almonds and milk. Finally, lightly mix in the dried fruit. Put the dough in a round cake pan, which we have previously lined with baking paper, smooth it out and arrange the whole almonds on it neatly in circles. Heat the oven to 170 degrees. Bake for 45 minutes, then reduce the temperature to 160 degrees and bake for approx 50-60 minutes. For the filling, mix milk and sugar in a saucepan and heat. Stir until the powdered sugar is dissolved. With a brush spread the top of the cake with sugar topping and put it in the oven for about 3 more minutes. And another tip; the cake can be wrapped in aluminum foil and put in the refrigerator for several days, as it is at its best only on the second or third day.