Mincemeat And Marzipan Tea Bread
Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins
Preparation Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr
Ingredients
- 8 ounces self-raising flour
- 4 ounces cold butter, cut into pieces
- 3 ounces light muscovado sugar
- 3 ounces marzipan, cut in to 1/2 cubes
- 2 eggs
- 10 ounces mincemeat
- 2 tablespoons sliced almonds
- icing sugar, for dusting
Recipe
- 1 preheat the oven to 180c / gas 4 / fan 160c.
- 2 butter a 2lb loaf tin and line the base with greaseproof paper.
- 3 tip the flour into a bowl, add the cold butter and rub until the mixture forms fine crumbs. (i do this in the food processor to save time) stir in the sugar and marzipan cubes.
- 4 in another bowl, lightly whisk the eggs, and then stir in the mincemeat. stir this into the flour mixture until evenly combined.
- 5 spoon in to the prepared loaf tin, smooth and sprinkle the flaked almonds over the top.
- 6 bake for 1 hour until the tea bread is risen and golden brown, or a skewer inserted comes out clean, (except for it you push it through a piece of marzipan!).
- 7 lightly dust the tea bread with icing sugar while it is still hot.
- 8 allow to cool in the tin for 10 minutes then tip on to a wire rack to cool completely.
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