Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, christmas cake with almonds. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Want an easy fruit cake with no fuss? Impress your guests and jazz up your cake with rum and a simple almond buttercream. Nigella Lawson shares her recipe for Christmas cake, made with dried fruit, ground almonds, delicious chopped pecans and a good splash of bourbon.
Christmas Cake with Almonds is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Christmas Cake with Almonds is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook christmas cake with almonds using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake with Almonds:
- Get 2 1/4 cups (335 g) plain flour
- Take 1 1/4 cup (220 g) brown sugar
- Take 4 eggs
- Make ready 300 g butter
- Make ready 1 cup (160 g) raisins
- Prepare 2 1/4 cups (306 g) sultanas
- Take 3/4 cup (120 g) currants
- Prepare 1 cup (140 g) chopped dates
- Get 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Take 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Make ready 1/4 cup blanched almonds
- Make ready 3/4 cup (180 ml) brandy
- Make ready 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Make ready 1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate soda
Making a Christmas cake at home is quicker and easier with this delicious recipe. Packed full of the rich, festive flavours we all love, this luxurious boozy pud is bound to be a showstopper. Stir the nuts, eggs and ground almonds into the fruit mixture. Sift in the flour, baking powder and spices.
Steps to make Christmas Cake with Almonds:
- Preheat oven to 150ºC (300ºF).
- Soak raisins, sultanas, currants, almonds, dates, brandy, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla in a bowl. Mix well and cover and leave overnight.
- Cream butter and sugar in a bowl until light and creamy.
- Add eggs one at a time beating well after each egg addition.
- Drain soaked fruits and put aside.
- Sift flour and bicarbonate soda over drained fruit mixture mixing well. Make sure all fruits are coated.
- Once all fruits are coated put in creamed butter and sugar mixture and stir well.
- Pour into prepared cake tin. Place almonds on top as decor and bake for 3 hours 10 minutes, or until it passes the skewer test (should come out clean).
- Allow to cool in tin.
Nigella's Traditional Christmas Cake (from NIGELLA CHRISTMAS) has a chart that gives quantities for three different sizes of rich fruit (Christmas) cake. Ther recipe does contain ground almonds (almond meal) as these help to provide moisture to the cake. Photo "Christmas cake with almonds" can be used for personal and commercial purposes according to the conditions of the purchased Royalty-free license. Christmas cake is a classic for a reason: the strong fruit flavours go so well with the almond paste and sweet white icing. The cake also keeps for months, so you can serve the slices whenever people drop by during the Christmas holidays.
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