Christmas Calendar 2020 Day 19 - English sister cake with Christmas twist

 

The English sister cake is a cake, which I recall back from my childhood, where my mother used to bake this cake. And I also think, that she was buying a similar bag containing both baking powder and spice mixture called "brown baking powder". So when I located the type of baking powder in my local supermarket, I decided to bake English sister cake with a Christmas twist in form of both candied orange peel and sucat besides from the corinths. 

English sister cake with Christmas twist: - 1 cake

• 250 g soft butter
• 250 g sugar
• 2 eggs
• 400 g (cake) wheat flour
• 1 bag f brown baking powder
• 2½ dl full fat milk
• 75 g corinths
• 20 g candied orange peel
• 20 g sucat

1. Heat up the oven to 175'C.
2. Add soft bitter & sugar in a medium mixing bowl, and whip it together in a foamy mass using an electrical beater.
3. Add in the eggs, one by one, whipping between addition of an egg.
4. Add in the brown baking powder.
5. Pour in the milk, and whip again.
6. Add in the flour and whip.
7. Add in the dried fruit, and the cake dough together, until all the dried fruit is homogeneous mixed.
8. Cover a bread form of 2 l with baking parchement.
9. Pour in the cake dough.
10. Place the form in the middle of the oven.
11. Bake the cake at 175'C for 45-75 minutes.
12. Check regular, that the bake is baked.
13. Cold down the cake prior to cutting it and serving it.