Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, christmas cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Christmas Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Christmas Cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
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 can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake:
- Make ready 8 oz butter
- Prepare 8 oz dark soft brown sugar
- Take 4 eggs
- Prepare 8 oz plain flour, sifted
- Take 1 teaspoon allspice
- Get 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Make ready 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Make ready 2 tablespoons black treacle
- Make ready 1 tablespoon lemon or orange juice
- Prepare 8 oz seedless raisins
- Take 12 oz currants
- Make ready 8 oz sultanas
- Take 4 oz cut mixed peel
- Take 3 oz glace cherries, quartered, washed and dried
- Get grated rind of 1 lemon
- Get grated rind of 1 small orange
- Prepare 6-8 tablespoons 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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