Easiest Way to Prepare Award-winning Lardy  Cake

Lardy  Cake.

You can have Lardy  Cake using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Lardy  Cake

1. Prepare 146 g of Flying Sponge Mix.
2. You need 153 g of White flour.
3. It's 17 g of Rye Flour.
4. Prepare 31 g of Water.
5. It's 1-2 of Eggs.
6. It's 89 g of Butter.
7. It's 105 g of Light Brown Sugar.
8. You need 5 g of Salt.
9. It's 1 g of Mixed Spice.
10. You need 100 g of Raisins.

Lardy  Cake step by step

1. Ensure that you have followed the instructions to make the Flying Sponge and then line a baking tin with baking parchment.
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..
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.
4. Put the dough in a bowl and cover to bulk and prove for 45 mins in a warm place.
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.
6. Once the dough has doubled turn it out onto a lightly floured surface then roll it into a rectangle approx 10cm x 20cm.
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.
8. Fold the two sides in so that they meet in the middle then re-roll the dough out so that it's about 50cm long.
9. Perform a book fold with the dough by folding the top third down and the bottom third up..
10. Sprinkle the top with sugar, place in the lined baking tin, cover and prove for 1 hour.
11. Bake at 180C for 20 minutes then remove and allow to cool before eating.