Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, christmas cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Christmas Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Christmas Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
Choose from Savannah's delicious, rich layer cakes or our mini cake assortments. 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.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook christmas cake using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake:
- Make ready 8 oz butter
- Make ready 8 oz dark soft brown sugar
- Take 4 eggs
- Make ready 8 oz plain flour, sifted
- Prepare 1 teaspoon allspice
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Get 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Take 2 tablespoons black treacle
- Make ready 1 tablespoon lemon or orange juice
- Get 8 oz seedless raisins
- Prepare 12 oz currants
- Make ready 8 oz sultanas
- Get 4 oz cut mixed peel
- Prepare 3 oz glace cherries, quartered, washed and dried
- Make ready grated rind of 1 lemon
- Make ready grated rind of 1 small orange
- Make ready 6-8 tablespoons brandy (divided)
I remember very well my mother storing her fruit cake in an old butter churn that belonged to my grandmother and great grandmother. White Christmas Cake "Wow!" is the reaction from family and guests when they see and taste this lovely three-layer beauty. White chocolate, coconut and pecans make it so delicious. You can bake the cake layers in advance and freeze them.
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.
White chocolate, coconut and pecans make it so delicious. You can bake the cake layers in advance and freeze them. Then assemble and decorate the cake the day of the party. —Nancy Reichert, Thomasville, Georgia The traditional brandy-soaked traditional Christmas fruitcake will always be the most classic cake for British Christmas celebrations. Whether you're laying on a Dickens-style holiday spread , or want to gift this dense cake studded with dried fruits to family and friends, use this recipe for a spiced, brandy-soaked cake. If you're looking for a homemade Christmas cake (with lots of icing!), It's time to turn your attention to these festive ideas.
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