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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook vickys traditional christmas fruit cake, gf ef ef sf nf using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Vickys Traditional Christmas Fruit Cake, GF EF EF SF NF:
- Get 340 g (12 oz) gluten-free / plain flour
- Get 1/4 tsp slightly rounded xanthan gum if using GF flour
- Prepare 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda / baking soda
- Make ready 1/2 tsp mixed spice (see my separate recipe for this)
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Prepare 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- Get 70 g (2.5 oz) sunflower spread / butter
- Make ready 170 g (6 oz) soft brown sugar
- Make ready 170 g (6 oz) currants
- Make ready 170 g (6 oz) sultanas
- Prepare 140 g (5 oz) raisins
- Get 55 g (2 oz) chopped glacé cherries
- Make ready 25 g (1 oz) chopped mixed peel
- Prepare Zest of 1 lemon
- Prepare 280 ml (1 cup) plus 2.5 tbsp) light coconut milk or milk of choice
- Make ready 6 tbsp Brandy / Cointreau - I use half & half!
Mary Berry's rich traditional Christmas cake recipe is filled to the brim with fruit, as well as almonds, brandy and treacle. She lives and works in South Shropshire with her husband Archie. After eighteen years, the business is still the way we like it - a small family run artisan bakery. Our staff are the heart and soul of our busy.
Steps to make Vickys Traditional Christmas Fruit Cake, GF EF EF SF NF:
- Grease and line a 7 or 8 inch, deep round cake tin and preheat the oven to gas 4 / 180C / 350F
- Mix the flour, xanthan gum if using, bicarb of soda, mixed spice, cinnamon and nutmeg together in a large bowl
- Cut in the sunflower spread like you would if making pastry
- Stir in the sugar, currants, sulranas, raisins, cherries, mixed peel and lemon zest
- Add the milk and stir in just until the batter is smooth. Gluten-free batter may need up to 2 extra tablespoons of milk
- Pour into the cake tin. Try and push the batter down a bit in the middle of the tin to encourage a more even rise while it bakes
- Bake in the middle of the oven for 1 hour, then turn the heat down slightly to gas 3 / 160 / 325F for another 45 minutes or until the cake has pulled in from the sides of the tin and a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean and dry
- Turn out and let cool on a wire rack
- When completely cooled, prick all over the cake top with a cocktail stick and spoon 2 tablespoons of the Brandy / Cointreau evenly over. I find it easiest to do this back in the tin lined with clean parchment paper
- Wrap and store in an airtight container for a week then repeat the pricking and 2 tbsp Brandy feeding. Do this until the Brandy is gone. At the end of the final week the cake is ready to eat! This cake will keep for up to 4 weeks from the day it's baked, 3 weeks for the gluten-free version so the GF is best made I feel on the 4th of December to make it perfect for Christmas Day
- If you want to you can spread some apricot jam over the top of the cake and cover in a thin layer of marzipan then spread more jam over that before a final covering of white ready roll fondant icing and maybe some holly leaves or Christmas cake toppers
After eighteen years, the business is still the way we like it - a small family run artisan bakery. Our staff are the heart and soul of our busy. The recipes for these two traditional holiday baked goods can be very similar. (And then there's Christmas pudding, which confuses, too.)Christmas cake and fruitcake often refer to the same thing: a cake with lots of candied dried fruits in them, a spicy-sweet flavor profile, and the presence of an alcohol such as rum. However, the American version of fruitcake often differs significantly from. Combine dried fruit, spice, vanilla, orange zest + juice, olive oil and eggs.
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