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As we are approaching Christmas soon, I thought it was about time I made my Christmas cake, as the Hubster and In-law like the alcoholic Christmas cake, which means I've got a few weeks of feeding this sober cake and make him rather drunk ready for Christmas!
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A Christmas cake is light or dark, crumbly-moist, heavy, shaped round with marzipan and royal icing or plain and simple maybe even a dusting of icing sugar. Usually drenched with Whisky or Brandy and full of dried fruit and spices.
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A Christmas cake made with alcohol or fed with alcohol tends to keep very well, up to 3 months. You need to store in a container in a cool dark cupboard or pantry and feed with alcohol twice a week. This also means you can prepare if in advance so that the cake can take on full flavour and you have time to do all the Christmas shopping.
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Ingredients
100g Mixed Dried Fruit
100g Raisins
150g Glace Cherries
200g Currants
150g Sultanas
75ml Sherry
1 Orange Zest
125g Butter
125g Light Brown Sugar
2 Eggs
1/2 Tbsp Treacle
40g Ground Almonds
125g Plain Flour
1 Tsp Mixed
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Add the raisins, cherries, currants, sultanas, orange zest and sherry to a bowl, cover and allow to soak over night.
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Add eggs, treacle, brown sugar and butter to a mixing bowl and beat together.
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Add flour, ground almonds and mix spice to the mixture and mix for about 1 minute.
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Add all the soaked fruit and juices to mixture
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Stir well making sure all the fruit is mixed in.
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Grease and double line a cake tin, pour in the batter and level the top.
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Bake in the oven for 4-4 1/2 hours at 140c until the cake tester becomes out clean.
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Allow the cake to cool completely, if storing the cake ( can store up to 3 months) then feed the cake twice a week with a little sherry.
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Add a ribbon around the cake and sprinkle on some silver sugar balls. Enjoy
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Simply decorated easy rich, sweet and fruity Christmas Cake.
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