Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, classic christmas cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
This is my original Christmas cake from the first book - a combination of my grandmother's, my mother's and a few tweaks from me. (There are more fruit cake recipes in our Christmas Cakes and Toppings collection here) 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. This eight cake of Christmas is one for the arts-and-crafts crowd.
Classic Christmas Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Classic Christmas Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first 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:
- Make ready Cake
- Take 175 grams Raisins
- Get 500 grams Currents
- Get 350 grams Sultanans
- Make ready 350 grams Glaced Cherries
- Get 150 ml Brandy/Sherry
- Take 2 Orange Zest
- Get 250 grams Butter
- Get 250 grams Molasses Sugar
- Get 4 Eggs
- Take 1 tbsp Treacle
- Prepare 75 grams Chopped, Blanched Almonds
- Get 250 grams Flour
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp Mixed Spice
- Take Covering
- Get 3 tbsp Apricot Jam
- Get 1 Icing Sugar
- Take 675 grams Marzipan
- Prepare Icing
- Prepare 3 Egg Whites
- Take 675 grams Icing Sugar
- Get 3 tsp Lemon Juice
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp Glycerine
You should get the pre-soaking ingredients ready the night before you make the cake. No British holiday is complete without a classic Christmas cake. Though this recipe may look complicated, it's actually quite approachable if you assemble and weigh all the ingredients and line the cake tin before you start. The cake can be made at least two months before Christmas for it to mature and to be fed with brandy earlier if you'd like.
Steps to make Classic Christmas Cake:
- Place all the dried fruit in a large mixing bowl. Pour over the Brandy and stir in the orange zest. Soak overnight.
- Preheat the oven to 140°C. Grease and double 23 cm line tin.
- Beat butter, sugar, eggs, treacle & almonds. Add flour and ground spice, stir in the soaked fruit.
- 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.
- Or spoon into 10x5cm bun pans and bake for 1h40min
- 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.
- 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.
- Carefully lift the marzipnn over the cake using a rolling pin. Smoothe it down.
- 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.
- Stir in the lemon juice and glycerine and beat the icing until it is very stiff and white and stands up in peaks.
- Cover the surface of the icing tightly with clingfilm and keep in a cool place until needed,
- 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.
- 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,
There are some parts of a Christmas celebration in Britain which just don't change, especially the traditional Christmas cake. A British Christmas isn't complete without this classic treat on the table. At first glance, making this cake may look complicated because it seems like a lot of ingredients, but it's actually very easy. This is the ultimate fruit cake recipe to serve at Christmas dinner this year. This is a wonderful, rich traditional fruit cake from Mary Berry, and can be made up to three months in advance.
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