Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, christmas cake. 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 foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Christmas Cake is something which I have loved my whole 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.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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
- Get 8 oz dark soft brown sugar
- Take 4 eggs
- Prepare 8 oz plain flour, sifted
- Prepare 1 teaspoon allspice
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Get 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Prepare 2 tablespoons black treacle
- Take 1 tablespoon lemon or orange juice
- Prepare 8 oz seedless raisins
- Prepare 12 oz currants
- Take 8 oz sultanas
- Take 4 oz cut mixed peel
- Prepare 3 oz glace cherries, quartered, washed and dried
- Prepare grated rind of 1 lemon
- Get 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.
Try our traditional boozy fruit cakes along with alternative ideas to serve over the festive season - impressive white snowball cake, boozy rum and raisin bundt cake. Baking a cake is a much hyped activity observed during Christmas. 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, brown.
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