Queen Alexandra’s Birthday Cake

Name: Queen Alexandra’s Birthday Cake
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 1 tablespoonful nutmeg.; 1 tablespoonful cloves; 1 tablespoonful mace; 2 tablespoonfuls cinnamon; 3½ lb butter; 4 lb Lisbon sugar; 2 lb sultanas well washed and dried; 1 lb filleted almonds; 5 lb flour; 6 lb currants; 3 lb Cedrat peel all cut small; 40 eggs well beaten; 1½ lb orange peel; 1½ lb lemon peel; ½ bottle rum; and the following spices mixed well together; 1½ tablespoonfuls allspice; grated rind of 8 lemons; ½ bottle brandy

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Broths to Bannocks

By Catherine Brown

Published 1990

About

This makes a 36 lb. cake and was made regularly at Buckingham Palace from 1902–10.

Ingredients

3½ lb butter
4 lb Lisbon sugar
5 lb

Europe
United Kingdom
Scotland
Vegetarian
Cake
Birth day

Method

Mix together dry ingredients, then stir in eggs, brandy and rum. Bake for 11 hours in medium oven. Top with almond paste and sugar icing with orange-flower water flavouring.