Christmas Cake

Hey everyone, it's Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we're going to make a distinctive dish, Christmas Cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Christmas Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It's easy, it's fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Christmas Cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They're nice and they look fantastic.

Many things affect the quality of taste from Christmas Cake, starting from the type of ingredients, then the selection of fresh ingredients, the ability to cut dishes to how to make and serve them. Don't worry if you want to prepare Christmas Cake delicious at home, because if you already know the trick then this dish can be used as an extraordinary special treat.

Just in addition, the time it takes to cook Christmas Cake estimated approx 3.25-3.50 hrs.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have Christmas Cake using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

This cake can be made a couple of months before Christmas and stored in a cool, dry place. Eat as it is (as a fruit cake) or just before Christmas, marzipan the cake (https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/11174930-how-to-marzipan-a-cake) and cover with Royal Icing (https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/11174895-royal-icing).

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Ingredients and spices that need to be Get to make Christmas Cake:

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

Instructions to make 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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