Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, 'v' christmas cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
'V' Christmas cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. 'V' Christmas cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook 'v' christmas cake using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make 'V' Christmas cake:
- Get 300 grams (12oz) self raising flour
- Prepare 5 ml (1tsp) mixed spice
- Prepare 100 grams (4 oz) ground almonds
- Make ready 200 grams (8 oz) butter
- Make ready 200 grams (8oz) castor sugar
- Get 4 eggs beaten with 125 mls (8 tbsp) milk or (1/2 milk and brandi )
- Make ready 200 grams (8 oz) currants
- Make ready 200 grams (8 oz) sultanas
- Take 200 grams (8 oz) raisins
- Get 100 grams (4 oz ) halved glacé cherries
- Take 100 grams (4 oz) cut mixed peel
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. Or you can go for our traditional, best-ever Christmas cake. 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. Both fruit cakes and Christmas puddings are two sweet dishes popular during the Christmas season.
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
Although there are some similarities between the two, there is a distinct. In our family no one thinks it's Christmas without this Red Velvet Cake recipe. It's different than other Red Velvet Cakes I've tasted over the years, since this one tastes only mildly chocolate and the icing is as light as snow. Karen Burns-Booth's Christmas cake recipe is a true classic, and sublimely easy to make. Don't forget to feed the cake with brandy every week before Christmas to ensure a rich and luxurious finish.
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