Caraway Seed Cake

Name: Caraway Seed Cake
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 60 g (2 oz) ground almonds; 180 g (6½ oz) self-raising flour; 2½ tbsp full-fat milk; 3 large eggs; 1½ tsp caraway seeds; 120 g (4 oz) butter, softened; 120 g (4 oz) caster sugar

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

World's Best Cakes

By Roger Pizey

Published 2013

About

This delicious loaf cake can be thrown together easily for impromptu afternoon guests. Cakes using the wonderful flavour of caraway seeds can be found as far back as the 1500s in the history of English cake making.

Ingredients

120 g (4 oz) butter, softened
120 g (4

Europe
United Kingdom
Cake
Vegetarian
Mediterranean

Method

Preheat the oven to 160°C/310°F/gas mark 2½, and grease and line a 18cm x 8cm x 8cm (7in x 3¼in x 3¼in) loaf tin with baking parchment.
Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs slowly one at a time.
Add the caraway