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