Cakes Recipes - Irish Whiskey Cake

Ingredients

• 175g chopped walnuts

• 75g raisins, chopped

• 75g currants

• 115g plain flour

• 5ml baking powder

• 1.5ml salt

• 115g butter

• 225 caster sugar

• 3 eggs, separated at room temperature

• 5ml grand nutmeg

• 2.5ml ground cinnamon

• 85ml Irish whiskey

• icing sugar, for dusting

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Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 160.C/325"F/Gas 3. Base-line and grease a 23 X 13cm/9 x Sin loaf tin. Mix the nuts and dried fruit with 30ml/2 tbsp of the flour and set aside. Sift together the remaining flour, baking powder and salt.

2. Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg yolks.

3. Mix the nutmeg, cinnamon and whiskey. Fold into the butter mixture, alternating with the flour mixture.

4. Mix the nutmeg, cinnamon and whiskey. Fold into the butter mixture, alternating with the flour mixture.

5. Fill the loaf tin and bake until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool in the tin. To serve, dust with icing sugar over a template.