Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, christmas cake. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Christmas Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Christmas Cake is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook 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. Make ready 8 oz dark soft brown sugar
3. Take 4 eggs
4. Take 8 oz plain flour, sifted
5. Make ready 1 teaspoon allspice
6. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
7. Get 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
8. Prepare 2 tablespoons black treacle
9. Take 1 tablespoon lemon or orange juice
10. Take 8 oz seedless raisins
11. Make ready 12 oz currants
12. Make ready 8 oz sultanas
13. Prepare 4 oz cut mixed peel
14. Take 3 oz glace cherries, quartered, washed and dried
15. Make ready grated rind of 1 lemon
16. Get grated rind of 1 small orange
17. Make ready 6-8 tablespoons brandy (divided)

This recipe is started in October or November so as to let it mellow before the holidays. I remember very well my mother storing her fruit cake in an old butter churn that belonged to my grandmother and great grandmother. 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.

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.

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 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. And here's how the making part goes down. The key step that makes this so much faster to make than other fruit cakes is the fruit soaking step.

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