Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, christmas cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook christmas cake using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake:

1. Make ready 8 oz butter
2. Get 8 oz dark soft brown sugar
3. Prepare 4 eggs
4. Make ready 8 oz plain flour, sifted
5. Get 1 teaspoon allspice
6. Take 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
7. Prepare 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
8. Take 2 tablespoons black treacle
9. Take 1 tablespoon lemon or orange juice
10. Make ready 8 oz seedless raisins
11. Get 12 oz currants
12. Prepare 8 oz sultanas
13. Get 4 oz cut mixed peel
14. Make ready 3 oz glace cherries, quartered, washed and dried
15. Get grated rind of 1 lemon
16. Make ready grated rind of 1 small orange
17. Get 6-8 tablespoons brandy (divided)

My second Christmas cake for this year. The cake was inspired by some old Christmas cards that I have at home. I copied the design on the baubles from actual baubles that I have hanging on my. Find christmas cake stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock collection.

Instructions to make Christmas Cake:

1. In a large bowl, combine the raisins, currants, sultanas, mixed peel, glace cherries and grated lemon and orange rind. Add 3-4 tablespoons brandy, stir well and leave to soak.
2. Preheat the oven to 300 F.
3. Grease and line an 8 inch round or 7 inch square deep cake tin with greased greaseproof paper.
4. In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar until very light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, folding in a tablespoon of flour after each addition.
5. Sift the remaining flour with spices and fold into the creamed mixture, using a large metal spoon. Then stir in the treacle and fruit juice.
6. Add the brandy-soaked fruit mix to the cake mixture and stir until evenly blended, then turn into the prepared tin. Smooth the surface, make a small hollow in the center and tie a treble thickness of brown paper around the outside of the tin.
7. Bake in the preheated cool oven for about 3.25-3.50 hours or until a warmed fine skewer inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
8. Leave the cake in the tin overnight to cool completely. Prick the surface all over with a fine skewer, then pour over the remaining 3-4 tablespoons brandy and allow to soak in. Remove the cake from the tin, wrap securely in foil and store in a cool dry place.

Thousands of new, high-quality pictures added every day. To make a Christmas cake, start by chopping almonds. Then mix the almonds with dried fruit and brandy and let it sit overnight. Combine the dry ingredients in one bowl, and cream the butter, brown. This cake is a rich, moist fruit cake, perfect at Christmas.

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