tunis cake

[stevenskye3]

how long is 1.5hours please for the tunis cake

[teag1rl]

It's 90 minutes. Or am I missing something? And what's a Tunis cake?

[chazza]

90 minutes

[teag1rl]

Only takes an hour in the following recipe!

Makes 10--12 portions

For the cake
225 g/8 oz self-raising flour
170 g/6 oz softened butter
170 g/6 oz caster sugar
110 g/4 oz ground almonds
1 lemon (juice and grated rind)
3 eggs

For the topping
plenty of good quality chocolate
6 marzipan fruits (see recipe on opposite page) [I'm not including it here, you can make your own from any marzipan recipe I'd think.]

First make the cake. Place the butter and sugar into a food mixer and beat until pale. Add the eggs, flour, lemon juice, lemon rind and ground almonds, mixing thoroughly. Place the mixture into a 20 cms/8 in greased and floured tin and bake in a pre-heated oven at 150 degree C/300 degree F/gas 2 for one hour or until springy in the middle when pressed. Leave on a wire rack to cool.

To decorate the cake, wrap some greaseproof paper around the sides of the cake, standing proud of the top, secure this with a piece of string. This forms a well into which you can pour the melted chocolate. Remove the greaseproof and you'll find that the chocolate shouldn't have run down the sides. Ideally, you should have one centimetre of chocolate -- yes, really! leave to set and place the marzipan fruits on the top to finish.

[heathfield]

I.m only 0.5 in favour of metrication - and not at all in terms of time.
Why couldn't they just have said 90 minutes, or an hour and a half?