Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, 'v' christmas cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
'V' Christmas cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. 'V' Christmas cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
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 begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have 'v' christmas cake using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make 'V' Christmas cake:
- Get 300 grams (12oz) self raising flour
- Make ready 5 ml (1tsp) mixed spice
- Take 100 grams (4 oz) ground almonds
- Get 200 grams (8 oz) butter
- Take 200 grams (8oz) castor sugar
- Take 4 eggs beaten with 125 mls (8 tbsp) milk or (1/2 milk and brandi )
- Make ready 200 grams (8 oz) currants
- Make ready 200 grams (8 oz) sultanas
- Get 200 grams (8 oz) raisins
- Prepare 100 grams (4 oz ) halved glacé cherries
- Prepare 100 grams (4 oz) cut mixed peel
The key step that makes this so much faster to make than other fruit cakes is the fruit soaking step. Most recipes call for dried fruit to be soaked overnight. Karen Burns-Booth's Christmas cake recipe is a true classic, and sublimely easy to make. Don't forget to feed the cake with brandy every week before Christmas to ensure a rich and luxurious finish.
Steps to make 'V' Christmas cake:
- soak the currents, sultanas, raisins, halved glacè cherries and mixed peel in 1/2 cup (200mls) of good Brandi ..let it soak for at least 4/6 weeks and top up weekly before Christmas if necessary
- Sieve together flour , spice and ground almonds
- Cream butter and sugar, stir in flour mixture and eggs with milk ( alternately, a little at a time)
- lastly add fruit mix thoroughly
- place mixture in a greased and lined 23cm x 7cm deep round cake tin
- bake in slow oven, 150c-300f for about 41/2 hours …after 31/2 check cake by inserting a knife or skewer until it comes out clean
With only just under six weeks to go until the Big Day, that's Christmas Day, now is the time to. This can take an additional hour or two. Remove the cake from the oven, prick it all over with a skewer or toothpick and pour the rum all over it. For the cake, place all the dried fruit, including the cherries, into a large mixing bowl, pour over the brandy and stir in the orange zest. Cover with clingfilm and leave to soak for three days.
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