Christmas cake recipes
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Ingredients
- 12oz Currants
- 7oz Sultanas
- 7oz Raisins
- 4oz Glace cherries
- 1 Lemon rind (grated)
- 8oz Plain flour
- ¾ teaspoon Ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon Ground mixed spice
- 6oz Butter
- 6oz Dark soft brown sugar
- 3 Eggs
- 1 teaspoon Black treacle
- 3 tablespoons Brandy
Method
- Mix together fruit and washed quartered cherries,also lemon rind.
- Sift flour and spices together in a separate bowl.
- Cream butter till soft then add sugar and continue creaming till light and fluffy. (Don't over beat or cake will be heavy)
- Add eggs one at a time beating in well and following each with a spoonful of flour.
- Fold in remaining flour, then fruit mix.
- Add black treacle and final stir. WISH TIME!
- Put into 7"square or 8" round greased and double lined cake tin, hollow slightly in centre.
- Tie 2 or 3 thicknesses of newspaper round.
- Bake 150C for about 2 hours 45 minutes till skewer comes out clean.
- Remove from oven, leave to cool in tin. Turn onto a wire rack and prick all over top and spoon brandy over. Wrap in foil and store for at least 2 months. Feed the cake with brandy every other week. Cover with Marzipan and decorate couple of weeks before Santa comes!
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Add commentIngredients
- ¾ lb butter or margarine
- ¾ lb Demarara Sugar
- 6 eggs
- 1 lb self raising flour
- pinch salt
- 1 lb sultanas
- 1 lb currants
- ¼ lb raisins
- 6 oz candied peel
- 2 oz cherries
- ¼ lb chopped almonds
- ½ teasp spice
- 2 tablesp dark treacle
- 1 glass brandy
- Almond paste
Method
- Use tin 9" x 3.25"
- Beat butter and sugar to cream, add each egg separately and beat until the mixture is stiff and uniform. Stir in the sifted flour and all the other ingredients(except the almond paste). Mix well then transfer to a tin well lined with greased paper and bake for 6 hours 20 minutes on a very low light (gas no 1 - 300 deg C or fan 150). Tie a piece of brown paper round the outside of the tin while cooking. Keep for 2 - 3 weeks at least before butting. Cover with almond paste and when set with Royal Icing and decorate.
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Munchy mara x Tue Dec 11 2007 • Reply
wow how did u make it looks fabulus going to make it soon cant wait
Ingredients
- 1lb Self raising flour
- 6 Eggs
- ¾ lb Butter
- Pinch Salt
- 1lb Sultanas
- ¼ lb Raisins
- 1lb Currants
- 6 ozs Candied peel
- ¾ lb Brown sugar (must be demarara)
- 2 ozs Cherries
- ¼ lb Chopped almonds
- 2 tablespoons Dark treacle
- ½ teaspoonful Mixed spices
- 1 glass Brandy
- Almond Paste
- 1lb Icing sugar
- 4ozs Castor sugar
- 10 ozs Ground almonds
- 3 Eggs
- ½ teaspoonful Almond essence
- For the Almond Paste
Method
- Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, add each egg separately until the mixture is stiff and uniform. Stir in the sifted flour, the salt, the chopped almonds, the spices, the treacle and the brandy. Mix well, then transfer to a tin well lined with greased paper and bake for 6hrs 20m mins with regulo at Mark 1. Tie a peice of brown paper round the outside of the tin while cooking. Keep 4 2-3 weeks at least before cutting . Cover with almond paste and, when set, add Royal Icing. After that you can decorate.
- For the Almond Paste
- This makes about 2&1/4 lbs of paste, sufficent 4 covering a cake weighing 3-3&1/2 lbs. Crush any lumps in the icing sugarand pass itn through a very fine sieve. Mix together the sugars and almonds. Beat the eggs. Mix all the ingredients together, adding the egg gradually, working first with a wooden spoon, and then with your hands. Brush the cake with a thin layer of jelly, or seedless jam, before covering it with the almond paste. Leave to set and then cover with Royal Icing
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Add commentlnmb1 Thu Nov 22 2012 • Reply
made 2 christmas cakes with this recipe last year although didn't take as long to cook everyone really enjoyed them hope the 2 i've done this year turn out as good
burrowsF Mon Jan 16 2012 • Reply
My first attempt at a Christmas Cake...tasted really yummy. But I only needed to cook for 1.45min otherwise would have been black!!!
lindsayw Tue Jan 11 2011 • Reply
I made 2 christmas cakes following this recipe and both went down very well. I did cheat and a buy a luxury bag of dried fruit which worked very well. Will definitely being using this recipe next christmas.
Milf01 Wed Jan 20 2010 • Reply
The cake turned out lovely! Will be using this recipe again next year!
Milf01 Tue Oct 20 2009 • Reply
I followed this recipe to the tee but it took about 1½ hrs longer to cook than the recipe stated so I'm a little concerned someone is going to break their teeth on it at Christmas! Will let you know!