Tottenham cake

Name: Tottenham cake
Yield: For 12 Portions
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 30 ml (1 fl oz) water or redcurrant juice; 350 g (12 oz) icing (confectioners’) sugar; butter, for greasing; natural pink colouring (if you don’t use redcurrant juice); flour, for dusting; desiccated coconut and/or hundreds and thousands, to garnish (optional); 300 g (10½ oz) white sugar; 6 eggs; 300 g (10½ oz) butter, at room temperature; 50 g (1¾ oz) baking powder; 85 ml (2¾ fl oz) milk; 500 g (1 lb 2 oz) plain (all-purpose) flour

Preparation info

For
12
Portions

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Oats in the North, Wheat from the South

By Regula Ysewijn

Published 2020

About

In 1901, pieces of Tottenham cake were given away to children from the London neighbourhood of Tottenham to celebrate the victory of the Tottenham Hotspurs in the FA Cup. The pink icing is traditionally coloured with mulberry juice and sometimes the cake is finished with hundreds and thousands or desiccated coconut.

John Kirkland writes in The Modern Baker, Confectioner and Caterer that this is an easy and quick cake for child

Ingredients

Europe
United Kingdom
Cake
Vegetarian

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