Hello everybody, 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’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Christmas cake is a type of cake, often fruitcake, served at Christmas time in many countries. Christmas cake is an English tradition that began as plum porridge. Bake this festive fruit cake in advance of Christmas and feed it regularly with rum, brandy or whisky Try sponge instead of fruit cake this Christmas.
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To begin 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 can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas cake:
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- Make ready 125 gallon of self raising flour,200g of plain flour,
- Make ready 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
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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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