Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, plum cake merry christmas. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook plum cake merry christmas using 19 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Plum cake merry christmas:
- Prepare 1 cup raisins
- Take 1 cup dried apricots chopped
- Prepare 1 cup figs chopped
- Prepare 1/2 cup dried ginger chopped
- Make ready 1/2 cup candied orange peel chopped
- Get 3/4 cup Brandy
- Get 380 gms flour
- Make ready 225 gms butter melted
- Prepare 1.5 tsps baking powder
- Make ready 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- Make ready 1/2 tsp salt
- Make ready 300 gms breakfast sugar
- Get 4 large egg
- Take 150 gms packed brown sugar
- Make ready 2 tbsp molasses
- Take 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- Get 1 cup toasted walnuts
- Prepare 1/2 cup of apricot jam
- Get 1/2 cup of warm water
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Instructions to make Plum cake merry christmas:
- Stir together dried fruit, candied ginger, candied orange peel and brandy. Keep overnight.
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Butter two 9/5 inch loaf tins. Line them with butter paper. - In a bowl mix dry ingredients. Flour, baking powder, spices and salt. - In a mixer beat butter and both the sugars until smooth. Mix eggs one at a time followed by molasses and vanilla. Gradually add the flour mixture. Mix till smooth. Add the fruit mixture and walnuts.
- Divide the batter between the two tins. Bake for 1 hour and 35 minutes or till the tester comes out clean. Remove from oven and brush the top with more liquor. Remove and place on a wired rack. Heat the jam and water till smooth and glaze the top of the warmed cake.
- Important tips - - You can boil the dried fruit and candied fruit, strain and use immediately if running low on time. - - Brandy can be substituted with any other dark rum or orange flavoured liqueur. - - Use the best quality dried fruits available. - - Unglazed cakes can be shrink-wrapped and stored for up to one month in the fridge.
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