Grapes And Honey Cake

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29871, 11 July 1962, Page 3

Grapes And Honey Cake

A spicy raisin cake with a lemon batter icing has an attractive and easy motif of bunches of grapes to make it decorative. Seedless raisins quickly arrange into bunches of grapes. The leaves are merely star shapes marked on with a fork and lightly sprinkled with green sugar. Ingredients: 4oz butter 4oz sugar 2 eggs Boz flour 1J teaspoons baking powder 2 tablespoons honey 4 cup milk I teaspoon spice 4 teaspoon cinnamon i teaspoon salt 1 cup chopped raisins

Topping: 1 tablespoon butter lj cups icing sugar Lemon juice and hot water 1 teaspoon sugar 1 drop green colouring 1 2oz packet seedless raisins

Method: Cream butter and sugar and beat in honey, then eggs. Sift in flour, baking powder, spice, cinnamon and salt and mix with half a cup of milk. Add chopped raisins and turn Into an eight-inch round cake tin. Bake about three-quarters of an hour. Turn out and cool. Cream one tablespoon of butter and work in icing sugar and one teaspoon of lemon juice, with just sufficient drops of hot water to blend to a creamy texture. Spread over -the cooled cake. Put a very little sugar into a cup and add a drop of green colouring, tossing together until all is tinted. Mark two star-shaped grape leaves on the icing. Arrange seedless raisins like a large bunch of grapes and sprinkle a little of the green sugar on the leaves and a couple of tendrils.