Dessert
Best Christmas cake Recipe
This version of Best Christmas cake Recipe is flavorful, easy to prepare and suitable for traditional Dessert configurations....
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9 Min Prep
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10 Min Cook
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5 Servings
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Vegetarian
Ingredients
- 200g Butter
- 200g Muscovado Sugar
- 200g Plain Flour
- 4 Beaten Eggs
- 50g Ground Almonds
- 100ml Sherry
- 85g Candied Peel
- 85g Glace Cherry
- 250g Raisins
- 250g Currants
- 100g Pecan Nuts
- Grated zest of 1 Lemon
- 1 ½ tbsp Mixed Spice
- 1 ½ tbsp Rose water
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
Instructions
1
burning up oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3.
2
Line the base and sides of a 20 cm round, 7.5 cm deep cake tin.
3
Beat the dairy spread and granulated sugar with an electric hand mixer for 1-2 mins until very velvety and pale in colour, scraping down the sides of the container half way through.
4
swirl around in a spoonful of the baking flour, then swirl around in the beaten egg and the rest of the baking flour alternately, a quarter at a time, beating well each time with a wooden spoon.
5
swirl around in the almonds.
6
combine in the sherry (the combine will look curdled), then mix in the strip, cherries, raisins, cherries, nuts, lemon zest, seasoning, rosewater and vanilla.
7
Beat together to combine, then swirl around in the baking dusting seasoning.
8
Spoon mixture into the tin and even the top, making a slight dip in the centre.
9
cook thoroughly for 30 mins, then lower temperature to 150C/fan 130C/gas 2 and cook thoroughly a further 2-2¼ hrs, until a skewer insterted in the middle comes out wash.
10
Leave to cool in the tin, then take out of the tin and strip off the lining paper.
11
When completely cold, wrap well in cling film and foil to store until ready to embellish.
12
The cake will keep for several months.
Recipe Information
Cuisine
British
British
Course
Dessert
Dessert
Diet
Vegetarian
Vegetarian
Total Time
19 mins
19 mins
Recipe Time chart
Preparation Time
9 minsCooking Time
10 minsTotal Time
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