Caraway seed cake

Name: Caraway seed cake
Ingredients: 30 ml/2 tbsp milk or buttermilk; 30 ml/2 tbsp milk or buttermilk; 5 ml/1 tsp baking powder; 10 ml/2 tsp caraway seeds; 3 eggs; 225 g/8 oz/2 cups plain (all-purpose) flour; 175 g/6 oz/¾ cup butter, softened, plus extra for greasing; 175 g/6 oz/scant 1 cup caster (superfine) sugar

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cakes

By Ann Nicol

Published 2014

About

Just a few caraway seeds give this cake a delicately warm and spicy flavour that blends well with the tangy peel. This cake will keep for up to two days in an airtight container.

Ingredients

175 g/6 oz/¾ cup butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
175

Spicy
Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Grease and line a 20cm/8in round deep cake tin (pan) with baking parchment.
In a bowl, beat the butter and sugar until fluffy, then beat in the eggs one at a time. Sift the flour with the baking powder into the bo