Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, christmas cake (no added sugar). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
I have used this cake for all special occasions and everyone just loves it. Especially when they find out there is no added sugar or fat! This recipe is really moist with a great flavour.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook christmas cake (no added sugar) using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake (no added sugar):
- Make ready 175 g dried apricots, diced
- Take 6 tbsp water
- Take 150 mls olive oil
- Prepare 5 large eggs
- Get 175 g plain wholewheat flour
- Take 2 tsp mixed spice
- Make ready 1 lemon, zest & juice
- Prepare 1 orange, zest & juice
- Take 175 g raisins
- Make ready 125 g dried mixed fruit
- Prepare 225 g currants
- Take 175 g sultanas
- Get 100 g dried cherries
- Prepare 40 g flaked almonds
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Steps to make Christmas Cake (no added sugar):
- Add the diced apricots and the water to a pan and simmer gently until the apricots have absorbed the water and nice and soft.
- Allow the apricots to cool then blend in a food processor until finely minced (or mince with a sharp knife if you don’t have a food processor).
- Put the rest of the dried fruit into a large mixing bowl. Add the zest and juice of the lemon and orange, stir really well and let the fruit soak up the juices.
- In the largest mixing bowl you have, whisk together the oil and minced apricot puree until it is as well combined as you can get it. Whisk in the eggs until all of the ingredients are combined.
- Sift in the flour and spice, mix gently to combine all of the dry ingredients into the wet egg mixture.
- Stir in the rest of your ingredients.
- Pour into an 8 inch cake tin lined with parchment paper. Tie a strip of parchment paper around the outside of your tin with string.
- Bake at 150°C for 3 hours, or until a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
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