Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, christmas cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Christmas Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Christmas Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook christmas cake using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake:

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

They are simply a sponge cake, frosted with whipped cream, often decorated with strawberries, and usually topped with Christmas chocolates or other seasonal fruits, and a Santa Claus decoration. Christmas cakes of this style were originally released by Fujiya, and was popularized when they began sales at Ginza, the central. Christmas cake ice cream - Christmas cake recipe If you don't fancy having a go at this simple ice cream, then just stir some mincemeat or even crumbled Christmas cake into slightly softened. This cake is a rich, dark, moist fruit cake, very flavorful at Christmas.

Steps 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.

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. I remember very well my mother storing her fruit cake in an old butter churn that belonged to my grandmother and great grandmother. 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.

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