How to Make a Christmas Cake

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How to make aChristmas Cake
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How to make a Christmas cake

• Christmas cake is a type of fruit cake served
  during Christmas time in many countries. A
  Christmas cake may be light or dark,
  crumbly-moist to sticky-wet, spongy to heavy,
  leavened or unleavened, shaped round, square or
  oblong as whole cakes, cupcake, or petit fours,
  with marzipan, icing, glazing, dusting with icing
  sugar, or plain. If a Christmas cake is covered
  in icing, it is quite common for it to be
  decorated models of houses, of fir trees or of
  Santa Claus may be in the array of decorations.

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How to make a Christmas cake

• Ingredients
• 750g mixed sultanas and currants
• 200g ready-to-eat dried apricots, chopped
• 100g glacé cherries, rinsed and chopped
• 100g dried cranberries
• 2 oranges, both zested, 1 juiced
• 150ml brandy, sweet sherry or Marsala (plus extra
  for feeding)
• 325g unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for
  greasing
• 225g light sugar

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How to make a Christmas cake

• Ingredients
• 100g golden caster sugar
• 5 medium eggs
• 300g plain flour
• 75g ground almonds
• ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1 tsp mixed spice
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 100g almonds, finely chopped
• 1 tbsp golden syrup

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How to make a Christmas cake

• Method
• In a medium-sized, non-metallic bowl, mix
  together the dried fruit, orange zest and juice
  and brandy. Cover with clingfilm and leave in a
  cool, dark place to soak overnight.
• Use a deep, 23cm cake tin. Cut two circles of
  baking parchment to fit the base of the tin.
  Measure the circumference of the tin with a piece
  of string, then cut a strip of paper, and two and
  a half times the depth. Fold this strip in half
  lengthways, then make snips at 2.5cm intervals
  along the fold.

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How to make a Christmas cake

• Method
• Grease the base of the tin and put in one circle
  of parchment. Grease the sides of the tin and
  insert the folded strip of paper, pressing down
  the snipped edges on the base. Finally, place the
  second disc on top to secure the snipped edges in
  place. Heat the oven to 140C/120C fan/ gas 1.
• Beat together the butter and sugars with an
  electric whisk until light and fluffy followed by
  the eggs, one at a time.

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How to make a Christmas cake

• Method
• Combine the flour, ground almonds, bicarbonate of
  soda, mixed spice and ground ginger and fold into
  the butter mixture. Add the chopped almonds and
  syrup to the soaked fruit, then fold into the
  mixture.
• Spoon it into the prepared tin and bake on the
  bottom shelf of the oven for 4-4½ hours, until
  the top is dark golden and a skewer inserted into
  the cake comes out clean.

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How to make a Christmas cake

• Method
• Leave to cool on a cooling rack, then remove from
  the tin. Use a skewer to pierce the top of the
  cake at regular intervals and carefully spoon
  over 2 tbsp of brandy, so that it soaks in.
• Wrap the cake in two layers of fresh baking
  parchment, then in foil. Feed it with alcohol
  every two weeks (up to three times before
  Christmas). Dont overdo it or your cake will go
  soggy. Its also best not to feed it for a week
  before you ice it. It will keep for up to three
  months if stored in an airtight tin in a cool,
  dark place

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How to make a Christmas cake

• Notes
• You can soak the fruit with the whiskey overnight
  to bring out an extra strong flavor in the
  ingredients. Let the cake cook for ¾ of the
  baking time before checking (unless you can see
  it is overheating). Opening the door, banging the
  door or moving the cake before it has set can
  cause it to sink dramatically. To give the fruit
  cake a real punch, unwrap it each week and prick
  a few holes in the top before drizzling over 2-3
  tblsp of brandy or whiskey. Make sure you wrap it
  tightly once again before storing.

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How to make a Christmas cake