Buttermilk Fruit and Nut Cake
A great cake with lots of spices, sultanas and walnuts is baked then topped with an amazing icing that includes walnuts, sultanas and coconut.
Ingredients
Serves: 12
- Cake
- 4 cups (500g) plain flour
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup sultanas
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 1 cup (90g) desiccated coconut
- 2 cups (440g) white sugar
- 375g butter
- 2 cups any flavour fruit jam
- 1 cup (250g) buttermilk
- 4 egg whites
- Icing
- 4 egg yolks
- 1 1/2 cups (375ml) evaporated milk
- 2 cups (420g) white sugar
- 125g butter
- 2 cups chopped walnuts
- 2 cups sultanas
- 2 cups (185) desiccated coconut
Directions
Preparation:20min ›
Cook:40min ›
Ready in:1hour
- Cake: Preheat oven to 165 degrees C. Grease and flour 3 20cm cake tins.
- Mix flour, bicarb soda, cloves and cinnamon then add sultanas, walnuts and coconut. Mix well then set aside.
- Cream sugar and butter. Stir in jam. Add buttermilk alternately with flour mixture mixing with a spoon until all is used up ending with flour mixture.
- In a separate bowl beat egg whites until they hold a peak. Fold into other mixture. Pour into prepared cake tins.
- Bake approximately 30 minutes or until top springs back when lightly touched. Cool and frost.
- Icing: Mix yolks until they are broken up and smooth then add 1/2 cup of the evaporated milk and mix together until well combined.
- Add rest of evaporated milk, sugar and butter. Cook until thick then remove from heat.
- Stir in nuts, sultanas and coconut. Cool slightly while beating mixture with a spoon. Spread on cooled cake.
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Reviews in English (6)
AMALGAMATION is right! Took an AMALGAMATION of ingredients! :-) I tried this the other day and it was WELL worth it! Will have to make another, because I am going to take it to the Church dinner next Sunday. Thanks! - 05 Oct 2002 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
I took this to my favorite charity's first ever CAKE AUCTION.People were bidding like crazy. The cake finally went for $51.25. I guess that says something about this fabulously unique and tasty treat! Thanks for sharing Glenda. - 18 Sep 2003 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
Really good fruity cake. More work than I usually like to put in (I'm seriously into one-pot cookery!). Icing too sweet for me but made it look really impressive. Well liked by everyone who tasted it. - 07 Aug 2009 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)