Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, christmas cake. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna 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’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Christmas Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first 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 8 oz butter
- Take 8 oz dark soft brown sugar
- Make ready 4 eggs
- Take 8 oz plain flour, sifted
- Make ready 1 teaspoon allspice
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Get 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Get 2 tablespoons black treacle
- Make ready 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
- Take 3 oz glace cherries, quartered, washed and dried
- Make ready grated rind of 1 lemon
- Take grated rind of 1 small orange
- Make ready 6-8 tablespoons brandy (divided)
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.
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