Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, classic christmas cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Classic Christmas Cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Classic Christmas Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have classic christmas cake using 23 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Classic Christmas Cake:
- Prepare Cake
- Prepare 175 grams Raisins
- Take 500 grams Currents
- Make ready 350 grams Sultanans
- Make ready 350 grams Glaced Cherries
- Make ready 150 ml Brandy/Sherry
- Get 2 Orange Zest
- Make ready 250 grams Butter
- Make ready 250 grams Molasses Sugar
- Prepare 4 Eggs
- Get 1 tbsp Treacle
- Get 75 grams Chopped, Blanched Almonds
- Take 250 grams Flour
- Get 1 1/2 tsp Mixed Spice
- Take Covering
- Make ready 3 tbsp Apricot Jam
- Prepare 1 Icing Sugar
- Prepare 675 grams Marzipan
- Take Icing
- Make ready 3 Egg Whites
- Get 675 grams Icing Sugar
- Get 3 tsp Lemon Juice
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp Glycerine
This fabulous frosted fruitcake is the perfect traditional treat for your family and friends during the festivities. I try to make it in November, so it has a minimum of one month to be fed with plenty of booze to make it super moist and delicious! The alcohol acts as a natural preservative too, allowing her to be enjoyed right into New Year's. This classic Christmas cake recipe is a real showstopper and can be made weeks in.
Steps to make Classic Christmas Cake:
- Place all the dried fruit in a large mixing bowl. Pour over the Brandy and stir in the orange zest. Soak overnight.
- Preheat the oven to 140°C. Grease and double 23 cm line tin.
- Beat butter, sugar, eggs, treacle & almonds. Add flour and ground spice, stir in the soaked fruit.
- Spoon into prepared cake tin and level. Bake for 4 to 4 1/2 hours, if after 2 hours it is a rich, golden, brown colour, cover with foil. Once a scewer comes out clean, remove from oven and allow to cool in the tin. When cool, pierce the cake with fine holes and pour over brandy. Remove for tin and wrap in double layer wax paper and store. Week dousing with a cap full brandy.
- Or spoon into 10x5cm bun pans and bake for 1h40min
- 1 week before the cake is needed, cover the cake. Stand the cake upside down, flat side uppermost. Brush the sides and the top of the cake with the warm apricot jam.
- Liberally dust a work surface with icing supar and then roll out the marzipan to about 5cm larger than the surface of the cake. Keep moving the marzipan as you roll, checking that it is nnot sticking to the work surface. Dust the work surface with more icing sugar as necessary.
- Carefully lift the marzipnn over the cake using a rolling pin. Smoothe it down.
- For the royal icing whisk the egg whites in a large bowl until they become frothy. Mix in the sifted icing sugar a tbl full at a time.
- Stir in the lemon juice and glycerine and beat the icing until it is very stiff and white and stands up in peaks.
- Cover the surface of the icing tightly with clingfilm and keep in a cool place until needed,
- To ice the cake, place all the icing onto the top of the cake. Spread evenly over the top and sides of the cake with a palette knife. For a snow-peak effect, use a smaller palette knife to rough up the icing.
- Leave the cake loosely covered overnight for the icing to harden a little, then wrap or store in an airtight container ina cool place until needed,
The alcohol acts as a natural preservative too, allowing her to be enjoyed right into New Year's. This classic Christmas cake recipe is a real showstopper and can be made weeks in. Mary Berry's been making her Christmas cake recipe for as long as Paul Hollywood's been alive. She knows what she's talking about. INSTRUCTIONS: For the cake, place all the dried fruit, including the cherries, into a large mixing bowl, pour over the brandy and stir in the orange zest.
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