How do you prepare simple queen cakes?

Answer 1

Queens Cake

Recipe #2939

Serves: 10

Preparation time: 15 to 30 minutes

Ingredients

80 g butter

1 cup sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

1 cup chopped dates

1 cup boiling water

1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

1½ cups plain flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

½ cup chopped walnuts

Lemon icing

1 cup icing sugar

15 g butter

1 tablespoon lemon juice

Method

1. Place dates, boiling water and bicarbonate of soda in a saucepan.

2. Stir over low heat until dates are soft and pulpy. Allow to cool.

3. Cream butter, sugar and vanilla, Add eggs and beat well.

4. Stir in date mixture and walnuts.

5. Fold in the flour, salt and baking powder.

6. Pour mixture into a greased 25x25 cm cake tin and bake at 180°C for 40-50 minutes or until

cooked .

7. Cool cake on wire rack. Ice with lemon icing.

8. Lemon icing: Stir icing sugar in top of double saucepan. Stir in softened butter and lemon

juice over gentle simmering water until mixture is of good spreading consistency.

9. Remove from heat and spread over cake.9/5/12 Queens Cake recipe - Best

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Recipe note

she cake will keep for up to 3-4 days in an airtight container, if you can keep the kids away from it

for that long.