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The feast of St Martin of Tours is celebrated
on November 11 the. St Martin's feast comes at a
time when walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts and dried
figs are abundant in Malta. There are many
traditional recipes involving these ingredients
named after this Saint. The St Martin's cake is
one of these popular recipes.
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Mix sugar and butter till light and fluffy.
Beat eggs and add them to the mixture. Sieve
self-raising flour and add it with the mixed
spice and the ground cloves. Add them to the
mixture little by little. Pour milk and the
vanilla essence and mix slowly. Add slowly the
walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts and last the dried
figs. If the mixture will be a little dry, you
can add some more milk to be creamy but not too
runny. Grease a 26cm baking tin and cover the
base and all around the tin with baking paper.
Grease the baking paper as well. Pour the
mixture in the tin and with the back of the
spoon arrange the surface of the cake. Bake on
moderate oven on 180c for 1hr 15 minutes or
when it's golden brown and from inside it will
be ready. You can test it with a small wooden
kebab stick and it has to be clean when you
take it out. Leave it to cool, and to decorate
sprinkle some icing sugar and some nuts. Enjoy,
it's really delicious -)
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