Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, christmas cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Christmas Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Christmas Cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
Christmas cake is a type of cake, often fruitcake, served at Christmas time in many countries. Christmas cake is an English tradition that began as plum porridge. A traditional English Christmas Cake is made with rich, moist currants, sultanas (golden raisins).
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook christmas cake using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake:
- Make ready 8 oz butter
- Take 8 oz dark soft brown sugar
- Prepare 4 eggs
- Take 8 oz plain flour, sifted
- Get 1 teaspoon allspice
- Get 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Take 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Take 2 tablespoons black treacle
- Take 1 tablespoon lemon or orange juice
- Take 8 oz seedless raisins
- Get 12 oz currants
- Prepare 8 oz sultanas
- Make ready 4 oz cut mixed peel
- Get 3 oz glace cherries, quartered, washed and dried
- Take grated rind of 1 lemon
- Prepare grated rind of 1 small orange
- Make ready 6-8 tablespoons brandy (divided)
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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.
We've made lots of Christmas cake recipes over the years. From chocolate and cherry to gin and tea - here are our favourites. To make a Christmas cake, start by chopping almonds. Then mix the almonds with dried fruit and brandy and let it sit overnight. Combine the dry ingredients in one bowl, and cream the butter.
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