Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, christmas cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Christmas Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Christmas Cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have christmas cake using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake:

1. Get 8 oz butter
2. Get 8 oz dark soft brown sugar
3. Prepare 4 eggs
4. Prepare 8 oz plain flour, sifted
5. Get 1 teaspoon allspice
6. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
7. Take 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
8. Make ready 2 tablespoons black treacle
9. Take 1 tablespoon lemon or orange juice
10. Prepare 8 oz seedless raisins
11. Take 12 oz currants
12. Prepare 8 oz sultanas
13. Take 4 oz cut mixed peel
14. Prepare 3 oz glace cherries, quartered, washed and dried
15. Take grated rind of 1 lemon
16. Take grated rind of 1 small orange
17. Get 6-8 tablespoons brandy (divided)

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Steps to make Christmas Cake:

1. In a large bowl, combine the raisins, currants, sultanas, mixed peel, glace cherries and grated lemon and orange rind. Add 3-4 tablespoons brandy, stir well and leave to soak.
2. Preheat the oven to 300 F.
3. Grease and line an 8 inch round or 7 inch square deep cake tin with greased greaseproof paper.
4. In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar until very light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, folding in a tablespoon of flour after each addition.
5. Sift the remaining flour with spices and fold into the creamed mixture, using a large metal spoon. Then stir in the treacle and fruit juice.
6. Add the brandy-soaked fruit mix to the cake mixture and stir until evenly blended, then turn into the prepared tin. Smooth the surface, make a small hollow in the center and tie a treble thickness of brown paper around the outside of the tin.
7. Bake in the preheated cool oven for about 3.25-3.50 hours or until a warmed fine skewer inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
8. Leave the cake in the tin overnight to cool completely. Prick the surface all over with a fine skewer, then pour over the remaining 3-4 tablespoons brandy and allow to soak in. Remove the cake from the tin, wrap securely in foil and store in a cool dry place.

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