Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, christmas cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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.
Christmas cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Christmas cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have christmas cake using 3 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas cake:
- Make ready cakes
- Make ready 125 gallon of self raising flour,200g of plain flour,
- Take 1/4 tsp of salt,1 tsp mixed spice1/2 tsp ground cinnamon,1/2 groung nutmeg,250g of butter,250g soft dark brown muscovado sugar,2tsp black treacle,5 eggs,50ml medium dry sherry,1 1/2 tsp of vanilla essence,250g currants,250g sultanas, 250g stoned raisins,250g seed
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.
Steps to make Christmas cake:
- soak fruit over night
- grease tin
- line the outside with several layers of thicknesses of brown paper standing at least 5cm above the top of the tin
- sift the flours into a bowl with the salt mixed spice cinnamon and nutmeg
- then cream the butter and the sugar in a large bowl then beat in the treacle
- lightly beat in the eggs sherry and vanilla essence
- gradually beat ina half of the eggs into the creamed mixture.continue to add the eggs and flour mixturs alternately.mix in all the remaining ingrediants except the brandy.turn into the prepared tin and smooth the top
- bake ina heated oven of 140°F. for about 4 and a 1/2 hrs.cover the cake with a double layer of brown paper if it starts to brown a bit to much during cooking
- leave to cool in the tin then turn out on a wire tray then spoon brandy over for flavour
- store the cake for a week at the least in an airtighttin
- then you can ice it and decorate
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