
Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I gonna show you a way to prepare a special dish, Christmas Cake. It is one of my favorites recipe This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look deliciou
The Ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake:
- Prepare 8 oz of butter
- You need 8 oz of dark soft brown sugar
- You need 4 of eggs
- You need 8 oz of plain flour, sifted
- You need 1 teaspoon of allspice
- It’s 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
- It’s 1/4 teaspoon of ground nutmeg
- It’s 2 tablespoons of black treacle
- Prepare 1 tablespoon of lemon or orange juice
- You need 8 oz of seedless raisins
- Prepare 12 oz of currants
- It’s 8 oz of sultanas
- It’s 4 oz of cut mixed peel
- Prepare 3 oz of glace cherries, quartered, washed and dried
- Prepare of grated rind of 1 lemon
- You need of grated rind of 1 small orange
- Prepare 6-8 tablespoons of brandy (divided)
Step 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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