Lardy Cake

Introduce

Chef :

Chris

Lardy Cake

A traditional sweet bread cake that can be made with lard or with butter. It requires the Flying Sponge mix which you can find here - https://cookpad.com/uk/recipes/3347428-flying-sponge

Ingredient

146 g

Flying Sponge Mix

153 g

White flour

17 g

Rye Flour

31 g

Water

1-2

Eggs

89 g

Butter

105 g

Light Brown Sugar

5 g

Salt

1 g

Mixed Spice

100 g

Raisins

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Ensure that you have followed the instructions to make the Flying Sponge and then line a baking tin with baking parchment

* Step 2

Break an egg into a bowl, mix and weigh it, you're looking for 34g of egg, if it's not enough then add another egg.

* Step 3

Add all the dry ingredients to a bowl along with 9g of butter, 5g of Brown sugar, 34g of egg mix, the salt, water and the Flying sponge mix. Mix together well then knead for 10 minutes

* Step 4

Put the dough in a bowl and cover to bulk and prove for 45 mins in a warm place

* Step 5

In a second bowl mix the 100g sugar, 80g butter, mixed spice and raisins to create a gooey filling. You can add more mixed spice if you like your cakes a bit more punchy in flavour

* Step 6

Once the dough has doubled turn it out onto a lightly floured surface then roll it into a rectangle approx 10cm x 20cm

* Step 7

Place the filling in the centre of the dough and spread out so that you roughly cover a central half of the dough, ensure that you cover up to the edge as much as possible