Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, christmas cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Buche de Noel is the French name for a Christmas cake shaped like a log. This one is a heavenly flourless chocolate cake rolled with chocolate whipped cream. Traditionally, Buche de Noel is decorated with confectioners' sugar to resemble snow on a Yule log.
Christmas Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Christmas Cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook christmas cake using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake:
- Take 8 oz butter
- Take 8 oz dark soft brown sugar
- Prepare 4 eggs
- Make ready 8 oz plain flour, sifted
- Make ready 1 teaspoon allspice
- Get 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Take 2 tablespoons black treacle
- Prepare 1 tablespoon lemon or orange juice
- Prepare 8 oz seedless raisins
- Take 12 oz currants
- Make ready 8 oz sultanas
- Make ready 4 oz cut mixed peel
- Get 3 oz glace cherries, quartered, washed and dried
- Get grated rind of 1 lemon
- Take grated rind of 1 small orange
- Get 6-8 tablespoons brandy (divided)
The traditional brandy-soaked traditional Christmas fruitcake will always be the most classic cake for British Christmas celebrations. Whether you're laying on a Dickens-style holiday spread , or want to gift this dense cake studded with dried fruits to family and friends, use this recipe for a spiced, brandy-soaked cake. A little baking, a lot of icing, and a little time with a frosting spatula and a rotating cake stand, and we know we've made something that will truly impress. If you want to infuse some of the best flavors of the holiday season, you'll really enjoy these best Christmas cakes that incorporate eggnog recipes and gingerbread recipes.
Steps to make Christmas Cake:
- 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.
- Preheat the oven to 300 F.
- Grease and line an 8 inch round or 7 inch square deep cake tin with greased greaseproof paper.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
White Christmas Cake "Wow!" is the reaction from family and guests when they see and taste this lovely three-layer beauty. White chocolate, coconut and pecans make it so delicious. You can bake the cake layers in advance and freeze them. Then assemble and decorate the cake the day of the party. —Nancy Reichert, Thomasville, Georgia Christmas cake and fruitcake often refer to the same thing: a cake with lots of candied dried fruits in them, a spicy-sweet flavor profile, and the presence of an alcohol such as rum. However, the American version of fruitcake often differs significantly from British Christmas cake, which is typically a moist, dense fruitcake draped in fondant.
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