Sultana Cake Recipes

SULTANA CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9 inch round cake pan.
• Put the raisins in a saucepan with enough water to cover and bring to a boil; reduce heat to medium low and allow to simmer for 15 minutes. Drain the water from the raisins. Stir the butter into the raisins until it melts and coats the raisins.
• Beat the sugar into the eggs in a bowl. Sift the flour and baking powder together in a separate bowl. Stir the raisins and vanilla into the egg mixture; add the flour mixture and stir until just mixed. Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 75 minutes. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

FARMHOUSE SULTANA CAKE

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 170c, butter and base line a cake tin.
• Sift plain flour, with the mixed spice, and bicarb of soda into a large bowl; stir in wholemeal flour.
• Rub the butter in until it resembles fine breadcrumbs, then add the sultanas and sugar.
• Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients, and add the milk.
• Beat gently until well mixed and of a dropping consistency, add more milk if needed. Turn into prepared tin.
• Bake in center of oven for 1 hour 40min. Until well cooked.
• Turn out onto wire rack.

OLD-FASHIONED SULTANA CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 150°C and grease a 20cm square or round cake tin.
• Pick over the sultanas to remove any stem- nothing worse than a crunch in your cake.
• Place sultanas in a saucepan and cover them with cold water. Bring to the boil and then drain off the water. Return sultanas to saucepan.
• Stir in the chopped butter and set aside the sultanas to cool.
• Beat together the eggs, essence and sugar. Then add in the sultanas.
• Add your flour and baking powder to another mixing bowl and aerate with a kitchen whisk (or you can sift them together).
• Stir the flour into the sultana mix.
• Pour into prepared cake tin and bake for 1 1/2 hours.

SULTANA CAKE

Steps:

• Pre-heat your oven to 170°c (150°c for fan assisted oven or Gas Mark 4) and line a 2lb loaf tin with greaseproof paper. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream together the margarine/butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add the eggs one at time, ensuring they are mixed through before adding the next. Add the lemon extract.
• Sift in the flour and gently fold to create a batter. Add the sultanas and mix to ensure they are evenly distributed.
• Transfer the batter to your pre-lined tin and bake in your pre-heated oven for about one hour until risen, golden and a skewer inserted comes out clean.
• Leave to cool in the tin for a few minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

SULTANA CAKE RECIPE

Steps:

• Keep butter at room temperature. Preheat the oven for 10 minutes at 200°c. Mix flour and baking powder altogether and strain with a strainer. Keep it aside. Mix 1 tbsp flour with sultana (raisin) and keep it aside.
• Take butter in a deep bowl. Add brown sugar to the butter. If brown sugar is not available at home you can add white sugar. Beat the butter and sugar with an electric egg beater. Beat until the mixture is creamy.
• Add egg one by one to the butter mixture. Beat until it looks like liquid creamy. Add vanilla essence to the butter and egg mixture. Mix it gently. Add liquid milk to the batter. Mix the milk very gently. Add flour to the batter very slowly. Then mix sultana to the batter with a spatula.
• Bake the cake in the middle rack of the oven at 160°c for 90 minutes. Pass a stick into the cake after 90 minutes. If the stick comes out clean, take out the cake from the oven. Keep it for cooling down.
• Brush butter on top of the cake. Slice the cake. Now the cake is ready to eat.

SULTANA LOAF

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 180C Bake - 355F
• Line a loaf tin with baking paper and set aside
• In a medium sauce pan add the Sultanas (or raisins), butter, baking soda and boiling water, bring to the boil and cook for 3-5 minutes stirring occasionally
• Remove from the heat, pour this sultana mixture into a medium bowl and allow it to cool for 5-10 minutes, feel free to pop this in the refrigerator
• Add to the sultana mixture the sugar, flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt and stir through
• Then add a well beaten egg, golden syrup and vanilla.
• Combine all of these ingredients together until no flour remains visible.
• Pour this into the prepared loaf tin and bake for one hour. This loaf is cooked when a skewer or knife comes out clean, with only moist crumbs remaining but no batter
• It is ok if the top cracks - see notes above
• Remove from the oven once baked and allow the loaf to cool for 20 minutes before removing from the pan and cooling on a wire rack
• Once cold store in an airtight container for up to 4 days.
• This loaf can also be frozen, either as is or already sliced.
• Serve as is or with butter or margarine.
• Enjoy!

SULTANA CAKE (SCOTTISH)

Steps:

• Cover the sultanas in water and let them soak overnight.
• Bring the water and sultanas to the boil and then strain off the water.
• Mix in the butter or margarine while the sultanas are still hot.
• Mix in the sugar, beaten eggs and almond essence.
• Sift in the flour and salt and then add in the chopped nuts (if desired).
• Mix well.
• Grease an 8" round baking tin and line the bottom with greased, greaseproof paper (vegetable parchment or waxed paper).
• Pour in the cake mixture and smooth the top.
• Bake in a moderate oven at 350F for 30 minutes.
• Reduce the heat to 300F until the centre is firm to the touch.
• Empty cake from the baking tin and store in an airtight container.