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Using an electric mixer or wooden spoon cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

Lemon drizzle wedding cake recipe. Mary berrys vanilla and chocolate marble traybake. I especially love the history snippets on the show as they are quite enlightening and after watching one such history snippet on the tottenham cake i felt inspired to try this recipe out because it reminded me so much of the school dinners cake as my husband calls it. Its sticky but light in texture not too dense.

Kindly supplied by sandra day of the friends of bruce castle external link here is another version of tottenham cakethe recipe may be found in the modern baker confectioner and caterer vol ii new and revised edition by john kirklandthe wording is taken directly from the page as published in 1931. This delicious traditional cake is so moreish when testing this recipe we couldnt eat it fast enough. Tottenham cake is a sponge traybake cake originally baked by tottenham quakers and covered either in pink icing originally made from mulberries from the garden of the tottenham quaker house or jam often sprinkled with dessicated coconut then cut into squares.

Pre heat oven to 350o180oc. Grease and line a 30 20cm rectangular traybake tin with baking paper. For the icing sieve the 130g icing sugar into a bowl and add a little water until thick but still runny enough to cover the cake well and stick to the spoon.

Bake for 40 minutes to 1 hour. 225g baking spread straight from the fridge 225g caster sugar. I love watching the great british bake off so much and recently i began been re watching all the seasons on netflix.

Sieve the jam into the icing sugar to remove any. Alternative recipe from 1931. English tottenham cake was for years one of the most popular cakes from england.

Line an 8x8 square tin with parchment paper then grease that with a bit of butter. Ola o smitthe guardian prep 10 min cook 30 35 min makes 16 pieces. Remove from oven and pour the 2 teaspoons icing sugar mixed with 50ml water over the cake.

You could use a madeira cake as your base if you wanted. Back in the 80s this cake was for sale at one of the best pastry shops in amsterdam. In a large bowl using an electric mixer on high cream together the butter and sugar until it becomes a light and fluffy.

This shop baked one big round sponge cake and on top with soft pink glaze.