Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, 'v' christmas cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
'V' Christmas cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. 'V' Christmas cake is something that I have loved my whole life.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 'v' christmas cake using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make 'V' Christmas cake:
- Prepare 300 grams (12oz) self raising flour
- Prepare 5 ml (1tsp) mixed spice
- Make ready 100 grams (4 oz) ground almonds
- Prepare 200 grams (8 oz) butter
- Make ready 200 grams (8oz) castor sugar
- Make ready 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
- Prepare 200 grams (8 oz) raisins
- Make ready 100 grams (4 oz ) halved glacé cherries
- Get 100 grams (4 oz) cut mixed peel
Christmas cakes of this style were originally released by Fujiya, and was popularized when they began sales at Ginza, the central. Christmas cake ideally should be made at least two months before Christmas; this allows time for the cake to be fed at regular intervals with brandy, which, in turn, helps to mature the cake. However, if you are making it later, you can be assured the cake will still taste as good, though it may not store as long as a mature one. The key difference between fruit cake and Christmas pudding is that fruit cake is a cake containing dried fruits, nuts and spices, made with butter and baked in the oven while Christmas pudding is a steamed suet pudding.
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
Both fruit cakes and Christmas puddings are two sweet dishes popular during the Christmas season. Although there are some similarities between the two, there is a distinct. Christmas cake in white with tree and penguins and ornaments. Bon Bon Christmas cake in bright red with other christmas colors. This cake is a rich, dark, moist fruit cake, very flavorful at Christmas.
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