Last week I had to take a few bakes along to my local WI meeting to serve up at suppertime. We take it in turns in groups of three. Usually we liaise between one another and make or buy a selection of savoury and sweet items to take along to share with all the other ladies. As I was the one out of the three ladies who liked baking the most the others took care of the savoury and I brought along the sweet stuff. As some people aren’t so keen on fancy decorated cakes I always try to offer something plain like a fruit cake. The Cut and Come Again Cake from Mary Berry’s Baking Bible seemed to fit the bill.
In the recipe introduction Mary says “This is a traditional name for a cake that is so delicious that everyone will come back for another slice.” She also said it was “good for a hungry family,” As I was going to be away for a couple of days over the Easter holidays with my hubby and the kids were going to be at home with my Mum, any leftover cake would come in very useful as a pudding. I was also hoping that the cake would live up to it’s name and that the cake would be so popular that people would come back for more!
Cut And Come Again Cake couldn’t be more simpler to make. It was prepared by simply adding all the ingredients measured into one big bowl and mixed together thoroughly.
The ingredients in Mary’s Cut and Come Again Cake are: self raising flour, ground mixed spice, butter (which has to be very soft), caster sugar, eggs, currants, sultanas, raisins and a little milk to mix.
The cake smelled heavenly when it was baking. My kitchen was filled with a spicy aroma and it made my mouth water. It took about 1 1/4 hours to bake which meant I had to leave it until last when I was getting it ready for the meeting. By this time it was the afternoon and I was feeling very hungry and in need of a pick me up! I was so tempted to cut into the cake and scoff a slice.
At the meeting I sliced the cake up but as there were so many cakes and other goodies on offer I still had half of it left to take home. I enjoyed my slice with a cup of tea, it wasn’t as heavy and rich as other fruit cakes but still tasted gorgeous. My Mum and my kids ate some more at the weekend, though it doesn’t keep as well as an ordinary fruit cake. And yes I was tempted to come back for more but I didn’t!
Happy Baking!
Love Sam xx
SmartCookieSam 
2 responses to “Cut and Come Again Cake from Mary Berry’s Baking Bible.”
where is the ingredients list
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A courteous, “please” would be nice, Thankyou.
This is quite an old post and at the beginning of writing my blogs where I was attempting recipes from other books, I just wrote about my experiences of baking with that recipe.
I am unable (as with all other bloggers) to share the recipe as it is an infringement of the recipe’s copyright. I would need Mary Berry’s permission to share the recipe. On newer posts, if I have baked other peoples recipes I try to find it online and share a link. I can’t with this cake, for some reason. But having said that, there are lots of alternative recipes for Cut And Come Again Fruitcakes out there. Hope this helps.
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