'V' Christmas cake
'V' Christmas cake

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, 'v' christmas cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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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. A stunning cake that uses the 'boiling method' to plump up dried fruit.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have 'v' christmas cake using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make 'V' Christmas cake:
  1. Take 300 grams (12oz) self raising flour
  2. Make ready 5 ml (1tsp) mixed spice
  3. Prepare 100 grams (4 oz) ground almonds
  4. Make ready 200 grams (8 oz) butter
  5. Take 200 grams (8oz) castor sugar
  6. Make ready 4 eggs beaten with 125 mls (8 tbsp) milk or (1/2 milk and brandi )
  7. Take 200 grams (8 oz) currants
  8. Take 200 grams (8 oz) sultanas
  9. Prepare 200 grams (8 oz) raisins
  10. Get 100 grams (4 oz ) halved glacé cherries
  11. Prepare 100 grams (4 oz) cut mixed peel

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Steps to make 'V' Christmas cake:
  1. soak the currents, sultanas, raisins, halved glacè cherries and mixed peel in 1/2 cup (200mls) of good Brandi ..let it soak for at least 4/6 weeks and top up weekly before Christmas if necessary
  2. Sieve together flour , spice and ground almonds
  3. Cream butter and sugar, stir in flour mixture and eggs with milk ( alternately, a little at a time)
  4. lastly add fruit mix thoroughly
  5. place mixture in a greased and lined 23cm x 7cm deep round cake tin
  6. bake in slow oven, 150c-300f for about 41/2 hours …after 31/2 check cake by inserting a knife or skewer until it comes out clean

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