Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, classic christmas cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Classic Christmas Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Classic Christmas Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
Make our wreath cake (see 'goes well with') and use the spare middle section to create a small gift decorated with classic marzipan and fondant icing. Christmas cake is a type of cake, often fruitcake, served at Christmas time in many countries. Christmas cake is an English tradition that began as plum porridge.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have classic christmas cake using 23 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Classic Christmas Cake:
- Get Cake
- Prepare 175 grams Raisins
- Get 500 grams Currents
- Prepare 350 grams Sultanans
- Take 350 grams Glaced Cherries
- Make ready 150 ml Brandy/Sherry
- Get 2 Orange Zest
- Take 250 grams Butter
- Prepare 250 grams Molasses Sugar
- Get 4 Eggs
- Make ready 1 tbsp Treacle
- Take 75 grams Chopped, Blanched Almonds
- Make ready 250 grams Flour
- Get 1 1/2 tsp Mixed Spice
- Get Covering
- Get 3 tbsp Apricot Jam
- Make ready 1 Icing Sugar
- Make ready 675 grams Marzipan
- Prepare Icing
- Prepare 3 Egg Whites
- Make ready 675 grams Icing Sugar
- Make ready 3 tsp Lemon Juice
- Take 1 1/2 tsp Glycerine
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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,
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