Secret Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 2 ounces chopped candied peel
- 8 ounces currants
- 2 tablespoons brandy
- 13 ounces puff pastry
- 1 ounce caster sugar
directions
- Mix the peel and currants together in a bowl, pour over the brandy and leave them to soak for at least 1 hour.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll the pastry out to 1/8 inch thick and cut into two 8 inch rounds.
- Place one pastry round on a wet baking tray and top with the brandy-soaked current and peel mix; moisten the edge of the pastry with water and cover with the other pastry round then press the edges to seal them together; slice the cake into quarters leaving it together, do not separate the quarters out; decorate the cake with left over pastry trimmings if you wish.
- Bake the cake for 15 minutes in the centre of the oven, pre-heated to 450 F / 230 C / gas mark 8; reduce the heat to 425 F / 220 C /gas mark 7 and bake for a further 20-25 minutes, or until crisp and golden brown.
- Sprinkle the cake with caster sugar and serve hot or cold.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Mrs B
Worcester Park, Surrey
I live with my husband and 2 cats in Worcester Park; a quiet typical 1930s suburb (which no one has ever heard of!) about 12 miles South West of London.
I'm a fair weather gardener and as my husband is a vegetarian I grow a few easy vegetables, such as tomatoes and peppers, mainly in containers. My husband loves growing flowers, the brighter the better, and we have a pretty garden as a result. Our cats, Araminta and Purrl, like it too!
I do a lot of cooking and try to keep our diet as healthy and varied as possible. Although I work full time, I use very little in the way of pre-prepared foods. This is partly because of the limited choice of vegetarian meals, which I think are overpriced anyway; but mainly because I like to know what goes in my food!
I love using the Internet for all the great ideas it gives me. Last year I participated in the Zaar World Tour (under my previous public name Caroline Blakey), which was great. Mr B and I tried lots of new foods and discovered new favourite meals. Researching recipes for the Tour was really interesting, however as I didn't have time to try them all, some were posted untested. I'm still working my way very slowly through them. To make matters worse I keep seeing other recipes I want to save and have also participated in Zaar world Tour II. So many recipes, so little time to make them!
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My 'rules' for posting recipes are a) if I wouldn't make a particular recipe, I won't post it and b) if my husband wouldn't eat it, I won't post it. This means that all my recipes are vegetarian friendly.
As you will see from the number of recipes saved in my cookbooks, I particularly enjoy making jams and chutneys; I'd say it was one of my favourite hobbies. We always have a good supply of home preserves; my friends and work colleagues are well supplied too.
If we won the lottery (say £5m, as a good number) we'd like to give up work, move to the country and buy a place with a bit of land. In my dreams this would be a manor house or old vicarage, with a walled garden, an orchard where I could keep hens, a vegetable garden, etc, etc, etc! In my more realistic moments (the £1m win perhaps) I would like to run a B&B, perhaps offering Vegetarian taster weekends. Luckily it costs nothing to dream.......I’d also love more time to read, do embroidery, learn a language, see more of the countryside; and of course play on Zaar.