Vickys Traditional Christmas Fruit Cake, GF EF EF SF NF
Vickys Traditional Christmas Fruit Cake, GF EF EF SF NF

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, vickys traditional christmas fruit cake, gf ef ef sf nf. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Great recipe for Vickys Traditional Christmas Fruit Cake, GF EF EF SF NF. A free-from version of a traditional Christmas cake best made at the beginning of December so it's at it's best for Christmas Day Vicky@Jacks Free-From Cookbook. See great recipes for Traditional Slovenian beef soup too!

Vickys Traditional Christmas Fruit Cake, GF EF EF SF NF is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Vickys Traditional Christmas Fruit Cake, GF EF EF SF NF is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have vickys traditional christmas fruit cake, gf ef ef sf nf using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Vickys Traditional Christmas Fruit Cake, GF EF EF SF NF:
  1. Prepare 340 g (12 oz) gluten-free / plain flour
  2. Get 1/4 tsp slightly rounded xanthan gum if using GF flour
  3. Take 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda / baking soda
  4. Make ready 1/2 tsp mixed spice (see my separate recipe for this)
  5. Take 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  6. Get 1/4 tsp nutmeg
  7. Prepare 70 g (2.5 oz) sunflower spread / butter
  8. Take 170 g (6 oz) soft brown sugar
  9. Make ready 170 g (6 oz) currants
  10. Get 170 g (6 oz) sultanas
  11. Make ready 140 g (5 oz) raisins
  12. Get 55 g (2 oz) chopped glacé cherries
  13. Prepare 25 g (1 oz) chopped mixed peel
  14. Make ready Zest of 1 lemon
  15. Prepare 280 ml (1 cup) plus 2.5 tbsp) light coconut milk or milk of choice
  16. Take 6 tbsp Brandy / Cointreau - I use half & half!

Boozy Chocolate Plum Pudding Cake: These mini bundt cakes include cognac, and they can be made gluten-free. (via Big Sis Little Dish). Christmas gave me the chance to bake fruit cake several times. Here is how you achieve it. This cake is a rich, dark, moist fruit cake, very flavorful at Christmas.

Instructions to make Vickys Traditional Christmas Fruit Cake, GF EF EF SF NF:
  1. Grease and line a 7 or 8 inch, deep round cake tin and preheat the oven to gas 4 / 180C / 350F
  2. Mix the flour, xanthan gum if using, bicarb of soda, mixed spice, cinnamon and nutmeg together in a large bowl
  3. Cut in the sunflower spread like you would if making pastry
  4. Stir in the sugar, currants, sulranas, raisins, cherries, mixed peel and lemon zest
  5. Add the milk and stir in just until the batter is smooth. Gluten-free batter may need up to 2 extra tablespoons of milk
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. Turn out and let cool on a wire rack
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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

Try icing with almond paste for a more festive touch. This recipe is started in October or November so as to let it mellow before the holidays. I remember very well my mother storing her fruit cake in an old butter churn that belonged to my grandmother and great grandmother. There are some parts of a Christmas celebration in Britain which just don't change, especially the traditional Christmas cake. A British Christmas isn't complete without this classic treat on the table.

So that is going to wrap it up for this exceptional food vickys traditional christmas fruit cake, gf ef ef sf nf recipe. Thank you very much for your time. I am confident you will make this at home. There’s gonna be interesting food in home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to bookmark this page in your browser, and share it to your family, colleague and friends. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!