Comments on: Dundee cake http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2005/12/18/dundee-cake/ The life and education of two growing beans - our 10th year of blogging Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:18:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.34 By: Petits Haricots » Blog Archive » dundee cake in http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2005/12/18/dundee-cake/#comment-2160 Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:14:56 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/?p=620#comment-2160 [...] a day earlier than last year! now to write Xmas cards [...]

]]> By: Petits Haricots » Blog Archive » bits and pieces http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2005/12/18/dundee-cake/#comment-2159 Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:15:59 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/?p=620#comment-2159 [...] my dundee cake blog post was linked on a dundee blog! Not had that happen before! [...]

]]> By: Joyce http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2005/12/18/dundee-cake/#comment-2158 Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:13:25 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/?p=620#comment-2158 I line my cake tin with grease proof paper, and have it extending a good four inchs above the top of the cake. It provides just enough protection usually. But it looks lovely, and I’m sure it will taste great.

]]> By: Helen http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2005/12/18/dundee-cake/#comment-2157 Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:18:47 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/?p=620#comment-2157 Thankyou Joyce. Next year it will be herringbone almonds with a glace cherry strip innetween for me.

Any clues why the cracks?? Should I have covered with foil or something to start with and only removed nearer the end??

]]> By: Joyce http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2005/12/18/dundee-cake/#comment-2156 Sun, 18 Dec 2005 22:59:23 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/?p=620#comment-2156 Having been born in Dundee, they are always made there with glace cherries and almonds. I’m with you Helen. But the whole point of Dundee Cake is it is meant to be unique to the person who makes it. Every family has their own recipe. And everyone has their own particular way of arranging the almonds. So actually, you can’t go wrong. It will be lovely :-)

]]> By: Chris http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2005/12/18/dundee-cake/#comment-2155 Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:46:28 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/?p=620#comment-2155 :roll: :roll: :roll:

I didn’t say that the Almond arrangement was wrong – what I said was that I always think of the Almonds as being radially as that is how my Nan did them, I’m not aware of a British (Scottish?) standard for Dundee Cake Almond Decoration, or the Dundee Cake Police checking up on such things. *And* I didn’t say she couldn’t put on Glace Cherries, I just said I was a bit of purist an *I* wouldn’t, but she could do whatever she wanted…..

Cake is in the oven and looking good :-)

Helen says she is sublimating her panic by worrying about the Almonds

]]> By: Sarah http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2005/12/18/dundee-cake/#comment-2154 Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:40:39 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/?p=620#comment-2154 surely the arrangement of almonds is a fairly small thing!

]]> By: Helen http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2005/12/18/dundee-cake/#comment-2153 Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:21:58 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/?p=620#comment-2153 Aaagh. Chris already said I did it wrong :?( Apparently the almonds should have been arranged radially. cry cry cry. I am SO trying to get things right.
up to me I’d have had alternated glace and almonds, but Chris said no. Since I’ve done it wrong, I wish I had now.

sob sob sob sob

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