Simple Way to Make Perfect Christmas Cake

Christmas Cake.

Christmas Cake

Hey everyone, it's Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I'm gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, christmas cake. It is 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 one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It's easy, it's quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Christmas Cake is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first 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:

{Make ready of butter.
{Take of dark soft brown sugar.
{Get of eggs.
{Get of plain flour, sifted.
{Get of allspice.
{Get of ground cinnamon.
{Prepare of ground nutmeg.
{Take of black treacle.
{Get of lemon or orange juice.
{Take of seedless raisins.
{Take of currants.
{Make ready of sultanas.
{Prepare of cut mixed peel.
{Make ready of glace cherries, quartered, washed and dried.
{Get of grated rind of 1 lemon.
{Prepare of grated rind of 1 small orange.
{Get of brandy (divided).

Steps to make Christmas Cake:

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..
Preheat the oven to 300 F..
Grease and line an 8 inch round or 7 inch square deep cake tin with greased greaseproof paper..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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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