A slice of Christmas. Enjoy some festive baking this season with our deliciously traditional Christmas cake recipe.
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CHRISTMAS CAKE SERVES 10 | PREP 30 MINS | COOK 150 MINS
Method: 1. Pre-heat the oven 150°C/130°C Fan/ Gas Mark 2. 2. Put the mixed dried fruit, almonds, walnuts and glacé cherries in a bowl and mix well. 3. Grate the rind from the orange and add to the fruit mix. 4. Juice the orange and add this and 80ml brandy to the fruit and mix well. 5. Line the base of the cake tin with some baking parchment. 6. Using a double thickness of parchment, line the inside of the cake tin, making sure that it stands about 4cmhigher than the side. 7. Cream the butter with the caster and brown sugar, until light and fluffy. 8. Beat the eggs in one at a time, add a little flour if it starts to curdle. 9. Mix the baking powder, mixed spice, cinnamon and bicarb into the plain flour.
Ingredients: • 4 Medium Irish Eggs • 200g Irish Butter, at room temperature • 100g Caster Sugar • 100g Soft Brown Sugar • 300g Plain Flour • 1 tsp Baking Powder • 1 tsp Bicarb of Soda • 415g Mixed Dried Fruit • 50g Walnut Pieces • 50g Slivered Almonds • 120g Glacé Cherries • 1 small Orange • 1 tsp Mixed Spice • ½ tsp Cinnamon • 160ml Napoleon Brandy
10. Gradually add this flour mix to the egg mix until smooth. 11. Then fold in the fruit and nut mix. 12. Spoon the cake mix carefully into the prepared tin and smooth the top. 13. Cook for about 2.5 hours – the top should be lightly cracked, browned and firm. 14. Test with a wooden skewer – it will be slightly damp when removed. 15. Pierce the top of the cake with a wooden skewer and slowly spoon over the rest of the brandy. 16. Allow to cool in the tin. 17. When cold, carefully remove the cake from the tin. 18. Wrap tightly in cling film and then in tin foil, store in a cool dark place.
• 1 x 18cm Spring Form Cake Tin • Non-stick Baking Parchment
¤1.99 500g Ready to Roll Marzipan €3.98 per kg
Icing Sugar €1.18 per kg
¤1.99 1kg Ready to Roll White Icing
59 c 500g
¤1.49 200g Glacé Cherries €7.45 per kg
Dried Mixed Fruit €2.98 per kg
Mixed Peel €3.95 per kg
¤1.49 500g
79 c 200g
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