Tunis cake? recipes?

How to make Tunis cake:


This cake is traditionally served at Christmas.








Ingredients





8oz self raising flour


6oz softened butter


6oz castor sugar


4oz ground almonds


1 lemon juice, and rind


3 eggs





for the topping:


plenty of good quality chocolate


6 marzipan fruits


(see measure conversions for more information)

















Method





- Place the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl and beat until pale.


- Add the eggs, flour, lemon juice, lemon rind and ground almonds, mixing thoroughly.


- Place the mixture into a 8in greased and floured cake tin and bake in a preheated oven at 150oC/300oF/gas mark 2 for one hour or until springy in the middle when pressed.


- Leave on a wire rack to cool.


- To decorate the cake, wrap some greased proof paper around the sides of the cake, standing proud of the top, securing this with a piece of string.


- Pour over the melted chocolate, when set remove the greaseproof and the chocolate shouldn't have run down the sides of the cake.


- There should be a good covering of chocolate on the cake.


- Once completely set, place the marzipan fruits on the top.Tunis cake? recipes?
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The above is a recipe for tunis cake. This website has the recipe in metric but also has conversion info within the sign to translate the metrics if you are unfamiliar with that.