Dundee Cake

A traditional British fruitcake. Lightly spiced butter cake with sherry, currants, sultana raisins, almonds, candied peel and cherries.

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$4.25 per slice

Oh, woe is the fruitcake! Such infamy is now attached to its name that one is loathe to call upon it. It started out innocently enough as a simple, fruited poundcake. Who could have imagined that it would devolve into an ignominious brick of cheap glaceed fruit and sodden nuts? Even the heavily fruited Genoa cake was never that, never so dense with fruit as to lose sight of the butter and egg-rich cake.

But despite the hardships of its class, the name of Dundee cake has not become tainted. It has always been associated with fruited cakes of the best quality.

Keeping with Scottish tradition, our Dundee cakes are made of the finest ingredients. We use sweet cream butter, plump raisins, currants, candied lemon peel that still tastes of the lemon, sweet almonds, cherries, sherry and freshly grated nutmeg. They are made by hand, in small batches, not mass produced. Tender, moist, and lightly spiced, they will keep for weeks, or even months (if well hidden!). They are a delicious holiday tradition, and suitable for the tea-table year round. It remains what fruitcake was meant to be...