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Recipes Breads & Buns Sultana Cake

Sultana Cake

For those who prefer a golden fruit cake rather than the traditional heavy dark cake.

1 hour 45 mins
Prep Time
(13)
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Sultana Cake

Ingredients

  • 2 cups sultanas
  • 250g butter (or Olivani Spread)
  • chopped in small pieces
  • 2 cups Chelsea white sugar
  • 3 eggs, beaten
  • ½ tsp lemon essence or almond essence
  • 3 cups Edmonds standard flour
  • 1 ½ tsp Edmonds baking powder

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 160ºC. Grease and line 20cm square cake tin with baking paper.

  2. Put sultanas in a saucepan. Cover with water. Bring to the boil then simmer for 15 minutes. Drain thoroughly. Add butter.

  3. In a bowl beat sugar into eggs until well combined. Add sultana mixture and essence.

  4. Sift flour and baking powder together. Mix sifted ingredients into fruit mixture.

  5. Spoon mixture into the cake tin.

  6. Bake for 1 to 1¼ hours or until cake springs back when lightly touched.

  7. Leave in tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool.

Products used in this recipe

Edmonds Baking Powder NZ Edmonds Cooking

Baking Powder
Edmonds Standard Flour 1.5kg FOP

Standard Grade Flour

Add your review

Jenny

Lovely cake. While hot I top with brown sugar then drip lemon juice over brown sugar till moist.creating a sweet lemon crust.

Betty

Best and easiest sultana cake ever!

stella

Gr8 recipe, delicious cake. Added to fav recipes

Gr8 recipe. Added to favorites

Delicious cake.

Robyn

Always great when you bake with Edmonds

Nicki

Just like my Nana made

Michelle

Consistently a show stealer. I make it in a round tin, and my husband has a large chunk every night yet it still lasts for days and days! Good old Edmonds :)

Michelle

Consistently a show stealer. I make it in a round tin, and my husband has a large chunk every night yet it still lasts for days and days! Good old Edmonds :)

sharee

This recipe has always worked amazingly! Delicious!

Mere

Successful!

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