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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have christmas cake with almonds using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake with Almonds:
- Take 2 1/4 cups (335 g) plain flour
- Prepare 1 1/4 cup (220 g) brown sugar
- Make ready 4 eggs
- Prepare 300 g butter
- Make ready 1 cup (160 g) raisins
- Prepare 2 1/4 cups (306 g) sultanas
- Get 3/4 cup (120 g) currants
- Make ready 1 cup (140 g) chopped dates
- Get 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Take 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Prepare 1/4 cup blanched almonds
- Get 3/4 cup (180 ml) brandy
- Get 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Make ready 1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate soda
Stir the nuts, eggs and ground almonds into the fruit mixture. Sift in the flour, baking powder and spices. Christmas cake with almonds on the wooden table (panettone). Try Mary Berry's traditional Victorian Christmas cake recipe for a rich but light cake - this cake is bejewelled with cherries and almonds.
Steps to make Christmas Cake with Almonds:
- Preheat oven to 150ºC (300ºF).
- Soak raisins, sultanas, currants, almonds, dates, brandy, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla in a bowl. Mix well and cover and leave overnight.
- Cream butter and sugar in a bowl until light and creamy.
- Add eggs one at a time beating well after each egg addition.
- Drain soaked fruits and put aside.
- Sift flour and bicarbonate soda over drained fruit mixture mixing well. Make sure all fruits are coated.
- Once all fruits are coated put in creamed butter and sugar mixture and stir well.
- Pour into prepared cake tin. Place almonds on top as decor and bake for 3 hours 10 minutes, or until it passes the skewer test (should come out clean).
- Allow to cool in tin.
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