Dundee Christmas Cupcake

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Products for kneading dough. We will also need dried fruits (you can choose according to your taste, you can increase the number of dried fruits).

2. Step 2:

   

   2 types of raisins, pineapples, cranberries. Dried fruits are washed, dried on paper towels, soaked in cognac + vanilla tincture, left for 2 hours.

3. Step 3:

   

   Peel the zest from the lemon and squeeze out 3 tablespoons of juice. Grind 50 g of almonds into flour.

4. Step 4:

   

   Beat butter at room temperature with sugar (add sugar in small portions).

5. Step 5:

   

   Add 4 eggs to the butter one at a time, beating thoroughly after each.

6. Step 6:

   

   Add lemon zest and juice, ground almonds. Mix it up.

8. Step 7:

   

   Sift flour with baking powder and add parts to the oil mixture, mix until smooth.

9. Step 8:

   

   Add dried fruits. Gently mix, distributing dried fruits over the dough.

10. Step 9:

    

    We spread the mixture into the prepared form, level it.

11. Step 10:

    

    Spread the peeled almonds on top of the circle (almonds are very easy to peel if soaked in boiling water for a few minutes). And bake in a preheated oven at 160C for about 1.20 - 1.30 hours. Since the dough is quite heavy, it is baked for a long time, we check the readiness with a skewer (it should be without traces of sticky dough).

12. Step 11:

    

    Since I have little dough left, I baked small cupcakes (baked for 35 minutes).

13. Step 12:

    

    Bon appetit!