Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I gonna show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, Christmas Cake. It is one of my favorites . This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look deliciou

The Ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake:

1. It’s 8 oz of butter
2. It’s 8 oz of dark soft brown sugar
3. Prepare 4 of eggs
4. Prepare 8 oz of plain flour, sifted
5. It’s 1 teaspoon of allspice
6. You need 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
7. Prepare 1/4 teaspoon of ground nutmeg
8. It’s 2 tablespoons of black treacle
9. You need 1 tablespoon of lemon or orange juice
10. It’s 8 oz of seedless raisins
11. Prepare 12 oz of currants
12. You need 8 oz of sultanas
13. Prepare 4 oz of cut mixed peel
14. You need 3 oz of glace cherries, quartered, washed and dried
15. It’s of grated rind of 1 lemon
16. You need of grated rind of 1 small orange
17. Prepare 6-8 tablespoons of brandy (divided)

Step to make Christmas Cake:

1. 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.
2. Preheat the oven to 300 F.
3. Grease and line an 8 inch round or 7 inch square deep cake tin with greased greaseproof paper.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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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