tunis cake? recipes?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Tunis Cake Recipe

Answer 3

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake 2 tablespoons butter 1 can (20 ounces) pineapple slices, drained 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup shortening 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1 egg, beaten 1 1/2 cups cake flour 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1/3 cup milk Melt butter in an 8-inch square cake pan. Add brown sugar; blend with the butter. Arrange 5 or 6 pineapple slices over the bottom of the pan, cutting as needed to fit as many as possible. In a mixing bowl, cream shortening, vanilla, and granulated sugar. Add egg; beat thoroughly. Add sifted dry ingredients alternately with the milk. Pour batter over pineapple. Bake at 350° for 35 minutes, or until a wooden pick or cake tester inserted in center comes out clean.

Answer 4

http://www.greenchronicle.com/christmas_recipes/tunis_cake.htm

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.