Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, christmas cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Next-day mail order Christmas Cakes, nationwide. In Japan, Christmas cakes are traditionally eaten on Christmas Eve. They are simply a sponge cake, frosted with whipped cream, often decorated with strawberries, and usually topped with Christmas chocolates or other seasonal fruits, and a Santa Claus decoration.
Christmas Cake is only one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Christmas Cake is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have christmas cake using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake:
- Take 8 oz butter
- Get 8 oz dark soft brown sugar
- Make ready 4 eggs
- Prepare 8 oz plain flour, sifted
- Take 1 teaspoon allspice
- Get 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Get 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Take 2 tablespoons black treacle
- Prepare 1 tablespoon lemon or orange juice
- Prepare 8 oz seedless raisins
- Prepare 12 oz currants
- Make ready 8 oz sultanas
- Get 4 oz cut mixed peel
- Make ready 3 oz glace cherries, quartered, washed and dried
- Take grated rind of 1 lemon
- Take grated rind of 1 small orange
- Get 6-8 tablespoons brandy (divided)
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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.
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. 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. You can make your cake on Stir-up Sunday on the last weekend in November, but some people consider this too late. In our family no one thinks it's Christmas without this Red Velvet Cake recipe. It's different than other Red Velvet Cakes I've tasted over the years, since this one tastes only mildly chocolate and the icing is as light as snow.
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