Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, christmas cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Christmas Cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Christmas Cake is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. 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 butter
- Make ready dark soft brown sugar
- Take eggs
- Take plain flour, sifted
- Prepare allspice
- Get ground cinnamon
- Make ready ground nutmeg
- Take black treacle
- Make ready lemon or orange juice
- Make ready seedless raisins
- Get currants
- Prepare sultanas
- Make ready cut mixed peel
- Take glace cherries, quartered, washed and dried
- Make ready grated rind of 1 lemon
- Get grated rind of 1 small orange
- Take brandy (divided)
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! Pour the apple juice into a saucepan and bring to a simmer. Add the butter, let it melt, then take off the heat and add the syrup and rum.
Instructions 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.
Pour the apple juice into a saucepan and bring to a simmer. Add the butter, let it melt, then take off the heat and add the syrup and rum. Put the mixed fruit and cranberries into a large bowl, pour over the hot rum mix, then cover tightly with cling film and leave overnight. 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.
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