Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, christmas cake with almonds. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Christmas Cake with Almonds is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Christmas Cake with Almonds is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
This cake is a rich, dark, moist fruit cake, very flavorful at Christmas. Try icing with almond paste for a more festive touch. 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.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have christmas cake with almonds using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake with Almonds:
- Make ready 2 1/4 cups (335 g) plain flour
- Make ready 1 1/4 cup (220 g) brown sugar
- Take 4 eggs
- Prepare 300 g butter
- Prepare 1 cup (160 g) raisins
- Take 2 1/4 cups (306 g) sultanas
- Make ready 3/4 cup (120 g) currants
- Prepare 1 cup (140 g) chopped dates
- Take 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Get 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Take 1/4 cup blanched almonds
- Make ready 3/4 cup (180 ml) brandy
- Take 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Get 1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate soda
Stir in the whole almonds, fruit and any leftover juices, turn into the tin, then smooth the top and make a dip in the middle. Dundee cake is a typical Scottish cake studded with almonds which hails from the city of Dundee on the east coast of Scotland. It was created by Janet Keiller, famous for Keiller Marmalade. Measure the butter, sugar, eggs, treacle and almonds into a very large bowl and beat well (preferably with an electric free-standing mixer).
Instructions to make Christmas Cake with Almonds:
- Preheat oven to 150ºC (300ºF).
- Soak raisins, sultanas, currants, almonds, dates, brandy, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla in a bowl. Mix well and cover and leave overnight.
- Cream butter and sugar in a bowl until light and creamy.
- Add eggs one at a time beating well after each egg addition.
- Drain soaked fruits and put aside.
- Sift flour and bicarbonate soda over drained fruit mixture mixing well. Make sure all fruits are coated.
- Once all fruits are coated put in creamed butter and sugar mixture and stir well.
- Pour into prepared cake tin. Place almonds on top as decor and bake for 3 hours 10 minutes, or until it passes the skewer test (should come out clean).
- Allow to cool in tin.
It was created by Janet Keiller, famous for Keiller Marmalade. Measure the butter, sugar, eggs, treacle and almonds into a very large bowl and beat well (preferably with an electric free-standing mixer). Add the flour and ground spice and mix thoroughly until. Nigella Lawson shares her recipe for Christmas cake, made with dried fruit, ground almonds, delicious chopped pecans and a good splash of bourbon. Add, to a traditional Christmas cake recipe, a touch of green fig preserve and some makataan, and you have a Platteland take on a rich, dark and brandy-sodden fruitcake.
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