Steps to Prepare Speedy Christmas Cake

Christmas Cake.

Christmas Cake

Hey everyone, hope you're having an amazing day today. Today, I'm gonna show you how to make a special dish, christmas cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I'm gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Christmas Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It's appreciated by millions every day. It's easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They're nice and they look wonderful. Christmas Cake is something that I've loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook christmas cake using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake:

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

Instructions 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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