Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, christmas cake (no added sugar). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Christmas Cake (no added sugar) is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Christmas Cake (no added sugar) is something that I have loved my entire life.
Place mixed fruit, apricots, undrained pineapple, orange juice and spice in a saucepan. No Added Sugar & Gluten Free Christmas Cake The other week Sukrin challenged me to make their no added sugar, dairy free and gluten free Christmas cake (with a hamper of their fabulous products!) and I gleefully agreed! This cake is bursting with goodness from the dried fruit, nuts and coconut flour and it is super tasty too. Christmas cake in the UK is a traditional fruit cake, with plenty of dried fruit, cherries, flaked almonds and citrus.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have christmas cake (no added sugar) using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake (no added sugar):
- Prepare 175 g dried apricots, diced
- Take 6 tbsp water
- Make ready 150 mls olive oil
- Make ready 5 large eggs
- Get 175 g plain wholewheat flour
- Take 2 tsp mixed spice
- Prepare 1 lemon, zest & juice
- Get 1 orange, zest & juice
- Prepare 175 g raisins
- Get 125 g dried mixed fruit
- Get 225 g currants
- Take 175 g sultanas
- Make ready 100 g dried cherries
- Prepare 40 g flaked almonds
Christmas Cake (no added sugar) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. This season brings a nicely balanced Christmas choir of dark chocolate (without refined sugar, of course) and fresh berries - chocolate ganache meets the juicy 'n' fruity taste plus a beneficial portion of vitamins. Of course, there is natural sugars occurring due to the dried fruit but that is all. No processed glace cherries, no added refined sugars nor is there any unhealthy trans fats - but the good news is this Christmas cake tastes ridgey didge.
Instructions to make Christmas Cake (no added sugar):
- Add the diced apricots and the water to a pan and simmer gently until the apricots have absorbed the water and nice and soft.
- Allow the apricots to cool then blend in a food processor until finely minced (or mince with a sharp knife if you don’t have a food processor).
- Put the rest of the dried fruit into a large mixing bowl. Add the zest and juice of the lemon and orange, stir really well and let the fruit soak up the juices.
- In the largest mixing bowl you have, whisk together the oil and minced apricot puree until it is as well combined as you can get it. Whisk in the eggs until all of the ingredients are combined.
- Sift in the flour and spice, mix gently to combine all of the dry ingredients into the wet egg mixture.
- Stir in the rest of your ingredients.
- Pour into an 8 inch cake tin lined with parchment paper. Tie a strip of parchment paper around the outside of your tin with string.
- Bake at 150°C for 3 hours, or until a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
Of course, there is natural sugars occurring due to the dried fruit but that is all. No processed glace cherries, no added refined sugars nor is there any unhealthy trans fats - but the good news is this Christmas cake tastes ridgey didge. In a large bowl combine the flour, coconut, almond meal, cacao powder, baking powder, spices and zest. The cake also freezes well (as with it being sugar free does not keep quite as well as a traditional cake). You can also make this cake with gluten free flour for coeliacs.
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