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# Paradise Cake · Rampant Scotland

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# Paradise Cake

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*Traditional Scottish Recipes*
 *- Paradise Cake*

*This is an easy to prepare recipe as it is based on shortcrust pastry which you can obtain from the supermarket (unless you want to make your own).*

Ingredients:
 8 oz shortcrust pastry
 Raspberry jam
 4 oz margarine
 4 oz caster sugar (4 rounded tablespoons granulated sugar)
 1 beaten egg
 2 tablespoons chopped glacé cherries
 2 tablespoons chopped walnuts
 2 tablespoons ground almonds
 Vanilla essence (extract)
 Caster sugar (granulated sugar) for dusting

Method:
 Roll out the pastry on a floured surface and use it to line a greased 11 inch by 7 inch baking tin. Bake this initially on its own in a pre-heated oven for ten minutes at 350F/175C/Gas Mark 4. Cream the margarine and sugar together and stir in a beaten egg, cherries, walnuts and almonds. Add the vanilla essence/extract and mix well. Spread a layer of raspberry jam on the bottom of the pastry case (after the ten minute baking) and spoon in the mixture on top of the jam. Bake for 30/35 minutes. On removing it from the oven, sprinkle with sugar and leave to cool in the tin. When it is cold, remove from the tin and cut into squares.

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