Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, christmas cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Christmas Cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Christmas Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
Christmas cake recipes from all your favourite BBC Chefs Mary Berry, Delia Smith, Frances Quinn, The Hairy Bikers and many more. If you're making and decorating a Christmas cake for the first time. 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.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook christmas cake using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake:
- Take 8 oz butter
- Prepare 8 oz dark soft brown sugar
- Take 4 eggs
- Take 8 oz plain flour, sifted
- Take 1 teaspoon allspice
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Prepare 2 tablespoons black treacle
- Make ready 1 tablespoon lemon or orange juice
- Make ready 8 oz seedless raisins
- Make ready 12 oz currants
- Take 8 oz sultanas
- Make ready 4 oz cut mixed peel
- Get 3 oz glace cherries, quartered, washed and dried
- Prepare grated rind of 1 lemon
- Make ready grated rind of 1 small orange
- Get 6-8 tablespoons 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.
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