Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, christmas cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Christmas Cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Christmas Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook christmas cake using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake:
- Make ready 8 oz butter
- Take 8 oz dark soft brown sugar
- Get 4 eggs
- Get 8 oz plain flour, sifted
- Make ready 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
- Get 8 oz seedless raisins
- Get 12 oz currants
- Make ready 8 oz sultanas
- Prepare 4 oz cut mixed peel
- Prepare 3 oz glace cherries, quartered, washed and dried
- Get grated rind of 1 lemon
- Make ready grated rind of 1 small orange
- Make ready 6-8 tablespoons brandy (divided)
Christmas cakes of this style were originally released by Fujiya, and was popularized when they began sales at Ginza, the central. There are also plenty of peppermint-flavored options, including the candy cane cake, peppermint chocolate cake with peppermint buttercream frosting, and candy cane peppermint and white chocolate swirl cake. With so many utterly decadent ideas, it will be difficult to choose just one Christmas cake to bake. Christmas cake ideally should be made at least two months before Christmas; this allows time for the cake to be fed at regular intervals with brandy, which, in turn, helps to mature the cake.
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.
However, if you are making it later, you can be assured the cake will still taste as good, though it may not store as long as a mature one. This cake is a rich, dark, moist fruit cake, very flavorful at Christmas. Try icing with almond paste for a more festive touch. This recipe is started in October or November so as to let it mellow before the holidays. I remember very well my mother storing her fruit cake in an old butter churn that belonged to my grandmother and great grandmother.
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