Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, 'v' christmas cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Christmas cake is a type of cake, often fruitcake, served at Christmas time in many countries. Christmas cake is an English tradition that began as plum porridge. This traditional Christmas cake pulls out all the stops - if you have the time, feed it with brandy in the run up to Christmas.
'V' Christmas cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. 'V' Christmas cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have 'v' christmas cake using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make 'V' Christmas cake:
- Prepare 300 grams (12oz) self raising flour
- Take 5 ml (1tsp) mixed spice
- Prepare 100 grams (4 oz) ground almonds
- Get 200 grams (8 oz) butter
- Prepare 200 grams (8oz) castor sugar
- Take 4 eggs beaten with 125 mls (8 tbsp) milk or (1/2 milk and brandi )
- Get 200 grams (8 oz) currants
- Prepare 200 grams (8 oz) sultanas
- Get 200 grams (8 oz) raisins
- Prepare 100 grams (4 oz ) halved glacé cherries
- Make ready 100 grams (4 oz) cut mixed peel
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Instructions to make 'V' Christmas cake:
- soak the currents, sultanas, raisins, halved glacè cherries and mixed peel in 1/2 cup (200mls) of good Brandi ..let it soak for at least 4/6 weeks and top up weekly before Christmas if necessary
- Sieve together flour , spice and ground almonds
- Cream butter and sugar, stir in flour mixture and eggs with milk ( alternately, a little at a time)
- lastly add fruit mix thoroughly
- place mixture in a greased and lined 23cm x 7cm deep round cake tin
- bake in slow oven, 150c-300f for about 41/2 hours …after 31/2 check cake by inserting a knife or skewer until it comes out clean
A simple and elegant way to decorate your Christmas cake - we've even added our amaretti biscuits for an extra. Buying a cake for Christmas is a Japanese tradition. And no matter how attractive a woman is. If you love traditional Christmas cake but want to make one with a twist, try making a Creole Christmas cake. Mix demerara sugar, molasses, and warm spices with rum, brandy.
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