Fiona's mincemeat cake. Great recipe for Fiona's mincemeat cake. This recipe was originally given to me by my mother's friend after I had lots of mincemeat left at Christmas and was sick of mince pies. I changed the original recipe around in order to make it a lighter fruit cake.
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Meanwhile, mix the topping ingredients together in a bowl.
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You can cook Fiona's mincemeat cake using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Fiona's mincemeat cake
- It's 115 grams of butter.
- It's 115 grams of caster sugar (regular white sugar).
- It's 3 each of eggs.
- It's 340 grams of mincemeat (the kind you get at Christmas in jars. its not meat but a mixture of currants cherries suet etc).
- Prepare 200 grams of self raising flour.
- You need 1 dash of milk.
The day before making the cake, place the sultanas, raisins, currants, ginger, orange zest, golden syrup and sherry in a bowl, stir well, cover with clingfilm and leave overnight. Remove layers from pans, and cool completely. Fill and frost the cake with Caramel Cream Frosting. Beat eggs slightly in large bowl.
Fiona's mincemeat cake step by step
- Grease a 7inch round cake tin.
- Cream butter and sugar together (ie beat together until it looks light).
- Beat in eggs to the sugar and butter mix. Beat in one at a time until combined.
- Stir in the mincemeat and fold in the flour. The mixture should be moist and not too stiff add a little milk if necessary.
- Bake at 325°F for 10 minutes then lower to 300°F for 30-40 minutes the cake is ready when it shrinks from the sides of the pan.
- Make a coffee sit with your feet up and enjoy a slice :-).
Stir in mincemeat, candied fruit, condensed milk and pecans. The texture of a mincemeat cake is pretty similar to a Scottish Dundee cake - less rich than my Amaretto fruit cake, this is a light, crumbly fruit cake. One thing I must make clear - there is no actual MEAT in this cake! Mincemeat is a mixture of dried fruit, alcohol, sugar and spices. Pour into a tin and level the surface with your mixing spoon.