Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, christmas cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Christmas Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Christmas Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have christmas cake using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake:
- Take butter
- Take dark soft brown sugar
- Get eggs
- Make ready plain flour, sifted
- Get allspice
- Make ready ground cinnamon
- Take ground nutmeg
- Make ready black treacle
- Get lemon or orange juice
- Take seedless raisins
- Make ready currants
- Get sultanas
- Get cut mixed peel
- Get glace cherries, quartered, washed and dried
- Make ready grated rind of 1 lemon
- Get grated rind of 1 small orange
- Prepare brandy (divided)
This cake is a rich, moist fruit cake, perfect at Christmas. Try icing with marzipan for a more festive touch. This recipe is started in late November so as to let it mellow before Christmas. Christmas Cake Let the aroma of Christmas baking fill the air and bring joy to your world!
Instructions to make Christmas Cake:
- In a large bowl, combine the raisins, currants, sultanas, mixed peel, glace cherries and grated lemon and orange rind. Add 3-4 tablespoons brandy, stir well and leave to soak.
- Preheat the oven to 300 F.
- Grease and line an 8 inch round or 7 inch square deep cake tin with greased greaseproof paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar until very light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, folding in a tablespoon of flour after each addition.
- Sift the remaining flour with spices and fold into the creamed mixture, using a large metal spoon. Then stir in the treacle and fruit juice.
- Add the brandy-soaked fruit mix to the cake mixture and stir until evenly blended, then turn into the prepared tin. Smooth the surface, make a small hollow in the center and tie a treble thickness of brown paper around the outside of the tin.
- Bake in the preheated cool oven for about 3.25-3.50 hours or until a warmed fine skewer inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Leave the cake in the tin overnight to cool completely. Prick the surface all over with a fine skewer, then pour over the remaining 3-4 tablespoons brandy and allow to soak in. Remove the cake from the tin, wrap securely in foil and store in a cool dry place.
This recipe is started in late November so as to let it mellow before Christmas. Christmas Cake Let the aroma of Christmas baking fill the air and bring joy to your world! Christmas cake and fruitcake often refer to the same thing: a cake with lots of candied dried fruits in them, a spicy-sweet flavor profile, and the presence of an alcohol such as rum. Our rich, fruity Christmas cakes are made using recipes perfected over a century. We take just as much care with the decoration, hand-icing each one so it's ready to take pride of place at the centre of your Christmas table.
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