Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, christmas cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. 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 butter
- Take dark soft brown sugar
- Take eggs
- Prepare plain flour, sifted
- Prepare allspice
- Prepare ground cinnamon
- Prepare ground nutmeg
- Make ready black treacle
- Take lemon or orange juice
- Take seedless raisins
- Take currants
- Get sultanas
- Make ready cut mixed peel
- Get glace cherries, quartered, washed and dried
- Take grated rind of 1 lemon
- Take grated rind of 1 small orange
- Take brandy (divided)
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Steps 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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