St Stephen’s cake

Name: St Stephen’s cake
Yield: Serves 8 to 10
Ingredients: 200 g/7 oz/1 scant cup caster sugar; 4 eggs, 2 of them separated; 2 tablespoons orange flower water; 200 g/7 oz/1¾ cups self-raising flour; icing sugar; 25 g/1 oz/2 tablespoons flaked or chopped blanched almonds; 75 g/3 oz/¾ cup chopped glacé or crystallised orange, kumquat or mandarin; 1 tablespoon orange juice; 200 g/7 oz/1¾ sticks unsalted butter, softened; 1 tablespoon grated orange zest

Preparation info

Serves
8 to 10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Floral Baker

By Frances Bissell

Published 2014

About

‘Deep and crisp and even’, that is the simple topping for this cake, icing sugar thickly dredged on an orange-scented crystallised fruit cake. Easy to make at the last minute and, with the ingredients almost certainly to hand, this is a very good cake for tea on Boxing Day, the feast of St Stephen.

Ingredients

200 g/7 oz/1¾ sticks unsalted butter, softened
200

Dessert
Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Grease and flour a 20 cm/8 inch cake tin.

Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat the whole eggs and egg yolks with the orange flower water and gradually beat into the cake mixture,