DUNDEE CAKE - WHAT IS IT AND WHERE TO BUY IT OR HOW TO MAKE IT

Dundee cake from Wikipedia. Article on North British Dundee Cake by author RGloucester with their own photo.

Dundee cake is apparently a favourite at tea time of  HRH Queen Elizabeth. The cake comes from Scotland. The story goes that N

Mary Queen of Scots liked fruit cake but not the traditional candied cherries, so a new version was made for her with blanched almonds.

Dundee cake decoration

Dundee cake is instantly recognizable. It has almonds on top, like fingernails, arranged in circles, sometimes with alternating lines so that the second row almonds are placed inside the outer row, with the larger end in the top of the gap between two almonds in the row below. Immediately recognizable.

https://thecake.fandom.com/wiki/Dundee_cake

Dundee traditional Cake

The cake is a rich fruit cake.

Dundee Birthday Cake

Convert it to a birthday cake with icing and candles. (NB during Covid-19 blowing out candles is banned. And singing happy birthday.

You can buy battery operated candles.

 USEFUL Websites

You can buy Dundee cake from Amazon and in supermarkets such as Marks & Spencer, in cake tins for Xmas, such as round tins with picture widows.

Cake from Marks & Spencer

Cake from cakeology

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brodies-Edinburgh-Dundee-Handmade-Traditional

Cake with marzipan and icing and a plaque with the word Love

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07XY2YKDR/ref=sspa_dk_hqp_detail_

https://thecake.fandom.com/wiki/Dundee_cake (Ads about games)

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/dundee-cake 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-54816794

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