Queen Cakes
Source & History
This is the recipe for cupcakes that Rhoda uses. It was her mother's (Great-Grandma Honeywell) and came from the Australian Home Journal of December 1920 (although we don't know whether she ever made them). It was one of the recipes in an article called Christmas Cooking. Here's Rhoda's hand-written version of the same thing. P.S. Rhoda took these to bowls the other day and one of the ladies asked her for the recipe!
Notes:
- The original recipe doesn't call for icing - just decoration with glace cherries or sultanas.
- Rhoda always uses both cherries & sultanas in the recipe (1/4 cup of each)
- Rhoda ices these with a butter icing made with a bit of lemon juice.
- Author
- Aileen Sorohan
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup castor sugar
- 3/4 cup flour plain
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 lemon grated rind of
- pinch salt
- 2 large eggs beaten
- 1/2 cup sultanas or glace cherries
- 1/4 cup candied peel
Instructions
- Cream butter & sugar.
- Add a little of the flour & baking powder then grated lemon rind and a pinch of salt.
- Add 2 beaten eggs alternately with flour, mixing well.
- Lastly add sultanas and/or glace cherries, and the candied peel.
- Pour into patty pans and bake in oven. Remove when golden brown.
- Top with Passionfruit Icing.