Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, classic christmas cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Classic Christmas Cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Classic Christmas Cake is something which I have loved my entire life.
This is my original Christmas cake from the first book - a combination of my grandmother's, my mother's and a few tweaks from me. Give the classic Christmas fruitcake a makeover with cinnamon, rose, orange blossom and tropical Try this snowy icing to jazz up a classic Christmas cake, then top with paper doilies and add LED. Christmas cake is generally assumed to be some kind of fruitcake — you know, that holiday dessert Christmas cake is actually the name for fruitcake eaten in the United Kingdom during the holidays.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have classic christmas cake using 23 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Classic Christmas Cake:
- Make ready Cake
- Take Raisins
- Get Currents
- Prepare Sultanans
- Make ready Glaced Cherries
- Make ready Brandy/Sherry
- Make ready Orange Zest
- Make ready Butter
- Take Molasses Sugar
- Prepare Eggs
- Take Treacle
- Make ready Chopped, Blanched Almonds
- Take Flour
- Make ready Mixed Spice
- Take Covering
- Make ready Apricot Jam
- Get Icing Sugar
- Take Marzipan
- Prepare Icing
- Get Egg Whites
- Get Icing Sugar
- Get Lemon Juice
- Prepare Glycerine
A traditional English Christmas Cake is made with rich, moist currants, sultanas (golden raisins). 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. How to make Classic Christmas Cake. For making this yummy cake recipe, take a large bowl Place all the dried fruit in a large bowl then stir in the grated orange zest and juice.
Instructions 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,
A great, classic recipe for Christmas cake. Easy to make and a joy to eat. After all, it's I always used to bake a Christmas cake every year until recently, when I was too busy and opted out. The first cake of Christmas starts things off with a kick. It's a rich chocolate cake, soaked in Kirsch Such a classic Christmas combo.
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