Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, christmas cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Christmas Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Christmas Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have christmas cake using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake:
- Get butter
- Get dark soft brown sugar
- Get eggs
- Get plain flour, sifted
- Prepare allspice
- Prepare ground cinnamon
- Make ready ground nutmeg
- Take black treacle
- Get lemon or orange juice
- Get seedless raisins
- Prepare currants
- Take sultanas
- Get cut mixed peel
- Make ready glace cherries, quartered, washed and dried
- Get grated rind of 1 lemon
- Take grated rind of 1 small orange
- Make ready brandy (divided)
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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