Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, 'v' christmas cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 'v' christmas cake using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make 'V' Christmas cake:
- Prepare 300 grams (12oz) self raising flour
- Take 5 ml (1tsp) mixed spice
- Make ready 100 grams (4 oz) ground almonds
- Prepare 200 grams (8 oz) butter
- Make ready 200 grams (8oz) castor sugar
- Make ready 4 eggs beaten with 125 mls (8 tbsp) milk or (1/2 milk and brandi )
- Prepare 200 grams (8 oz) currants
- Get 200 grams (8 oz) sultanas
- Take 200 grams (8 oz) raisins
- Make ready 100 grams (4 oz ) halved glacé cherries
- Take 100 grams (4 oz) cut mixed peel
You can make your cake on Stir-up Sunday on the last weekend in November, but some people consider this too late. Golden amaretti Christmas cake The gilded finish may give this cake a luxe look, but it's actually super-easy to achieve. Use edible gold spray to cover the icing and smooth royal icing to drip over the top of the cake. Amaretti biscuits bring out the marzipan flavours and provide plenty of texture.
Steps to make 'V' Christmas cake:
- soak the currents, sultanas, raisins, halved glacè cherries and mixed peel in 1/2 cup (200mls) of good Brandi ..let it soak for at least 4/6 weeks and top up weekly before Christmas if necessary
- Sieve together flour , spice and ground almonds
- Cream butter and sugar, stir in flour mixture and eggs with milk ( alternately, a little at a time)
- lastly add fruit mix thoroughly
- place mixture in a greased and lined 23cm x 7cm deep round cake tin
- bake in slow oven, 150c-300f for about 41/2 hours …after 31/2 check cake by inserting a knife or skewer until it comes out clean
Use edible gold spray to cover the icing and smooth royal icing to drip over the top of the cake. Amaretti biscuits bring out the marzipan flavours and provide plenty of texture. In Yorkshire, Christmas cake, as with other types of fruit cake, can be eaten with cheese, such as Wensleydale. A cake that may also be served at Christmas time in the United Kingdom, in addition to the traditional Christmas cake, is the cake known as a " Yule Log, or chocolate log". Our rich, fruity Christmas cakes are made using recipes perfected over a century.
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