Genoa cake

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Preparation info
  • For

    6-10

    people
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Oats in the North, Wheat from the South: The history of British Baking, savoury and sweet

By Regula Ysewijn

Published 2020

  • About

Although this cake resembles the Italian Christmas cake, Pandolce genovese, it’s still a top British cake, just like the Belgian bun and Battenberg cake. When I was little, my mother sometimes bought a cake in the supermarket with glace cherries and currants in it; I always called it English cake. Genoa cake is a lovely alternative to a richer Christmas cake. It’s nice to decorate the cake with candied fruit that catches the light like little gems. You can find recipes for Genoa cake