Sloe gin cake

Name: Sloe gin cake
Yield: Serves 8 to 10
Ingredients: 115 g/4 oz/1 cup walnuts, chopped; a pinch of salt; 225 g / 8 oz / 2 sticks unsalted butter; 250 g/9 oz / 2¼ cups self-raising flour; 150 g/6 oz/1 cup pitted prunes, chopped; milk; 75 ml/3 fl oz/6 tablespoons sloe gin; 1–2 tablespoons rosewater; 4 eggs; 115 g/4 oz / ½ cup rose petal sugar; 115 g/4 oz/1 cup un-dyed glacé cherries; 115 g /4 oz / ½ cup light muscovado sugar

Preparation info

Serves
8 to 10

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Floral Baker

By Frances Bissell

Published 2014

About

Here is another excellent fruit cake, rich with the flavour of that quintessentially English liqueur, sloe gin, combined with the fragrance of rose petals.

Ingredients

225 g / 8 oz / 2 sticks unsalted butter
115

Cake
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Line a 1 kg/2 lb loaf tin. Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Lightly beat the rosewater and eggs, beat them into the butter and sugar mixture and fold in the flour alternately. Stir