Spice Cake Recipe

10
Average
45 mins
Average budget

Ingredients

175 Gram Butter (6 oz)
175 Gram Sugar (6 oz)
2 Eggs, beaten
290 Gram Self raising flour (10 1/2 oz)
1 1/2 Teaspoon Baking powder
3/4 Teaspoon Ground nutmeg
3/4 Teaspoon Ground cinnamon
3/4 Teaspoon Ground allspice
215 ml Milk (7 1/2 fl oz)
1 1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla essence
175 Gram Marzipan (6 oz)
110 Gram Lemon curd (4 oz)
Icing sugar, to decorate
Method

Preparation

Step 1

Cream the butter and sugar together until pale and fluffy.

Step 2

Gradually beat in the eggs, then add the dry ingredients alternately with the milk and essence. Mix until smooth.

Step 3

Divide the mixture between 3 greased and lined 18 cm (7 inch) sandwich tins and bake at 190 °C / 375 °F / Gas 5 for 30 minutes. Cool in the tins before turning out.

Step 4

Divide the marzipan into 2 equal pieces and roll out into 18 cm (7 inch) circles. Sandwich the cakes together with the marzipan and lemon curd and dust the top with icing sugar.

Step 5

Use a deep 18 cm (7 inch) cake tin and cook for 45-50 minutes if you do not have 3 sandwich tins.