Classic Christmas Cake
Classic Christmas Cake

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, classic christmas cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

At Your Doorstep Faster Than Ever. For the cake, place all the dried fruit, including the cherries, into a large mixing bowl, pour over the brandy and stir in the orange zest. Cover with clingfilm and leave to soak for three days,. You should get the pre-soaking ingredients ready the night before you make the cake.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have classic christmas cake using 23 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Classic Christmas Cake:
  1. Make ready Cake
  2. Make ready 175 grams Raisins
  3. Prepare 500 grams Currents
  4. Make ready 350 grams Sultanans
  5. Make ready 350 grams Glaced Cherries
  6. Prepare 150 ml Brandy/Sherry
  7. Make ready 2 Orange Zest
  8. Take 250 grams Butter
  9. Take 250 grams Molasses Sugar
  10. Make ready 4 Eggs
  11. Make ready 1 tbsp Treacle
  12. Get 75 grams Chopped, Blanched Almonds
  13. Take 250 grams Flour
  14. Take 1 1/2 tsp Mixed Spice
  15. Make ready Covering
  16. Prepare 3 tbsp Apricot Jam
  17. Make ready 1 Icing Sugar
  18. Take 675 grams Marzipan
  19. Make ready Icing
  20. Get 3 Egg Whites
  21. Prepare 675 grams Icing Sugar
  22. Get 3 tsp Lemon Juice
  23. Take 1 1/2 tsp Glycerine

For the cake, place all the dried fruit, including the cherries, into a large mixing bowl, pour over the brandy and stir in the orange zest. Cover with clingfilm and leave to soak for three days, stirring daily. Christmas cake and fruitcake often refer to the same thing: a cake with lots of candied dried fruits in them, a spicy-sweet flavor profile, and the presence of an alcohol such as rum. Christmas cakes generally include mixed spice and a blend of allspice, cinnamon and cloves.

Instructions to make Classic Christmas Cake:
  1. Place all the dried fruit in a large mixing bowl. Pour over the Brandy and stir in the orange zest. Soak overnight.
  2. Preheat the oven to 140°C. Grease and double 23 cm line tin.
  3. Beat butter, sugar, eggs, treacle & almonds. Add flour and ground spice, stir in the soaked fruit.
  4. Spoon into prepared cake tin and level. Bake for 4 to 4 1/2 hours, if after 2 hours it is a rich, golden, brown colour, cover with foil. Once a scewer comes out clean, remove from oven and allow to cool in the tin. When cool, pierce the cake with fine holes and pour over brandy. Remove for tin and wrap in double layer wax paper and store. Week dousing with a cap full brandy.
  5. Or spoon into 10x5cm bun pans and bake for 1h40min
  6. 1 week before the cake is needed, cover the cake. Stand the cake upside down, flat side uppermost. Brush the sides and the top of the cake with the warm apricot jam.
  7. Liberally dust a work surface with icing supar and then roll out the marzipan to about 5cm larger than the surface of the cake. Keep moving the marzipan as you roll, checking that it is nnot sticking to the work surface. Dust the work surface with more icing sugar as necessary.
  8. Carefully lift the marzipnn over the cake using a rolling pin. Smoothe it down.
  9. For the royal icing whisk the egg whites in a large bowl until they become frothy. Mix in the sifted icing sugar a tbl full at a time.
  10. Stir in the lemon juice and glycerine and beat the icing until it is very stiff and white and stands up in peaks.
  11. Cover the surface of the icing tightly with clingfilm and keep in a cool place until needed,
  12. To ice the cake, place all the icing onto the top of the cake. Spread evenly over the top and sides of the cake with a palette knife. For a snow-peak effect, use a smaller palette knife to rough up the icing.
  13. Leave the cake loosely covered overnight for the icing to harden a little, then wrap or store in an airtight container ina cool place until needed,

Christmas cake and fruitcake often refer to the same thing: a cake with lots of candied dried fruits in them, a spicy-sweet flavor profile, and the presence of an alcohol such as rum. Christmas cakes generally include mixed spice and a blend of allspice, cinnamon and cloves. These are warming, aromatic spices that go well with the fruit but shouldn't have a big impact on the flavour. HOW LONG DOES A CHRISTMAS CAKE LAST? Measure the flour, spices, butter, sugar, eggs, almonds, treacle and lemon and.

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