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Manor House Sultana Cake served up on a wooden board decorated with white flowers
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Manor House Sultana Cake

Can't beat a simple old fashioned cake recipe. This farmhouse style cake has a scattering of Sultanas (you can add more if desired?) inside an indulgent crumbly vanilla sponge. Follow along with our easy baking instructions in UK & US measurements to make this Manor House Sultana Cake. If you love Mr Kiplings Manor House cake this recipe is for you
Prep Time15 minutes
Active Time1 hour
Total Time1 hour 15 minutes
Course: Cake
Cuisine: British
Keyword: country cake recipe, easy, farmhouse cake, fruit cake recipe, manor cake recipe, mr kipling fruit cake, old english, old fashioned, old fashioned sultana cake, simple, sultana cake
Yield: 12 People
Calories: 304kcal
Author: Luke and Kay - Flawless Food

Equipment

Ingredients

  • 215 grams (1 ¾ cups) Plain flour
  • 225 grams (1 cup) Unsalted Butter
  • 200 grams (1 cup) Caster sugar
  • 1 tablespoon Cornflour mixed with 3 tablespoon water
  • 3 medium Eggs
  • 1 teaspoon Baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 80 grams (½ cup) Sultanas

Instructions

  • Preheat Oven to 160°C (fan) 320 F
  • Put sultanas in a saucepan with enough water to cover them, bring to the boil. Then turn the heat off and allow them to sit for 10 minutes whilst you prepare the sponge mix.
    80 grams (½ cup) Sultanas
    Bowl of sultanas with water getting poured over them to soak before placing in the cake mixture
  • Beat the sugar and butter together until creamy ( we used a cake mixer to help speed it up), add 3 eggs and stir to combined. Add Vanilla extract.
    225 grams (1 cup) Unsalted Butter, 200 grams (1 cup) Caster sugar, 3 medium Eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    Sugar and butter in a food mixer to make our cake mixture
  • Make a cornflour slurry using 1 tablespoon cornflour with 1 tablespoon of water, stir until no lumps and then add another 2 tablespoon of water. Pour into cake mixture and stir.
    1 tablespoon Cornflour
    Cornflour mixed with water being added to our cake mixture
  • Sift flour into the bowl and finally add baking powder. Mix all together.
    Add a tablespoon of flour in with the drained sultanas to coat in flour (this helps stop them sinking)
    215 grams (1 ¾ cups) Plain flour, 1 teaspoon Baking powder, 80 grams (½ cup) Sultanas
    Baking powder in a silver teaspoon and flour in a sieve
  • Fold the sultanas into the mix. Place in a greased springform cake base I used a 20cm / 8inch round one and flatten the mixture as best you can.
    80 grams (½ cup) Sultanas
    Soaked sultanas being added to the cake mixture
  • Bake for 1 hour, leave to cool and sprinkle with extra sugar before serving.
    Slice of our manor house cake on a silver cake server

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Nutrition

Calories: 304kcal | Carbohydrates: 37g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Cholesterol: 81mg | Sodium: 151mg | Potassium: 122mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 21g | Vitamin A: 528IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 31mg | Iron: 1mg