Tottenham Cake
 
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Serves: 12
Ingredients
Cake
  • 6 oz/150g/12 tablespoons of softened unsalted butter
  • 6 oz/150g/ ¾ cup caster sugar (in the US just use granulated)
  • 6 oz/150g/ 1½ cups self-rising flour
  • 3 eggs
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Icing
  • 5oz/125g/1 heaping cup confectioners sugar
  • 30 ml/ 5 teaspoons, water/black currant juice
  • pink food coloring (only needed if you use water instead of juice)
Instructions
  1. Pre-heat oven to 350º/180ºC.
  2. Line an 8"x8" square tin with parchment paper, then grease that with a bit of butter.
  3. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer on high, cream together the butter and sugar until it becomes a light and fluffy. This takes about 2 minutes, but you may need to clear your beaters intermittently to make sure everything gets mixed.
  4. Add the vanilla extract to the butter mixture. Mix until combined.
  5. Turn your mixer to low or medium-low and beat in the eggs, one at a time.
  6. Once the eggs are mixed, turn the mixer to low and add in the flour all at once. Mix until just combined. It's ok if you have a few lumps!
  7. Pour the batter into your prepared tin. Bake in the middle of the oven for 25-30 minutes. The cake is done with you can insert a toothpick and it comes out clean.
  8. Let the cake cool.
  9. While the cake is cooling prepare the icing. In a medium bowl, add the confectioners sugar. One teaspoon at a time add the blackcurrant juice or water and just a bit of food coloring. Mix in between each teaspoon. Keep adding liquid until your icing looks like proper frosting and is thick enough to spread but not so thick it would rip up the cake when you spread it on. (Note: you may not need all the liquid or you may need more, just mix until it feels right to you. If it gets to drippy, then add more sugar)
  10. Let the icing sit for a minute it will harden and get shiny.
  11. Cut the cake into squares and serve.
Recipe by Cooking is Messy at https://www.cookingismessy.com/2015/01/22/tottenham-cake/