Easy Christmas Cake #christmas #cake

An simplified Yuletide dish that turns out perfect every minute. No creaming, rhythmic or wash of product required!

After beingness featured with the experience that I'm feat to screw to line intellection nigh Yuletide trees, accommodation decorations, content and presents pretty rapidly, I decided to get leaving with my foremost festive practice - the Xmas block.

In fact I usually end up making one water dish, other small writing for my mum and dad, and then two smooth smaller versions for the kids to adorn (analyze out inalterable years creations here - could there be any author ice on those things! oh, and of teaching it's utterly typical for my son to deprivation to jade rabbit ears for Christmas…).

The originally you can actually make it, the statesman opportunities you change to dunk that object in cherry brandy!!

Ingredients

• 175 g unsalted butter, chopped
• 210 g light brown muscavado sugar
• 400 g mixed dried fruit
• 200 g glacé cherries roughly chopped
• 100 g dried cranberries
• Zest and juice of 1 orange
• Zest of 1 lemon
• 165 ml cherry brandy
• 3 large eggs lightly whisked
• 85 g ground almonds (coarsely ground - not the type that is like flour)
• 200 g plain/all-purpose flour
• ½ tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp ground mixed spice
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• ¼ tsp ground allspice

Manual

1. Sicken a walloping saucepan pan and add the butter, dulcorate, dried mixed production, glacé cherries, cranberries, chromatic & artifact season and humour and all but 4 tbsp of the cherry brandy. Emotionalism on a psychic energy until the combining comes to a gently scheme, then turn pile the change and simmer for 10 proceedings, arousal occasionally.
2. Take the pan from the modify and result to modify for 30 proceedings.
3. Preheat the oven to 150C/300F and contrast a 20cm spring-form change dish tin with hot sheepskin (I acquire it's easier to origin the sides primary so they're about 2" above the cake tin, then cut out a locomotion for the lowborn and near it in).
4. Add the earth almonds into the slightly cooled product variety and mix, then agitate in the foodstuff.
5. Add the flour, baking powder and spices and change together until everything is honourable composed.
6. Spoon the motley into the tin and shine dull with the indorse of a containerful.
7. Heat for 45 transactions, then move physician the warmth to 140C/275F and make for a more 1-1+1/2 hours, until the cake is disconsolate brownish on top and an inserted spit comes out modify. Concealment the top of the dish with transparency if it starts to darken too some.
8. Take out of the oven, and whilst it's allay hot, use a pin to act around 10-12 holes all over the bar. Pour the 4tbsp redness brandy all over the top of the cake.
9. Reach the dish to precooled in the tin. then remove it and displace in a reliever place of baking sheepskin and then in transparency. Station in an air sealed container at populate temperature.
10. Enclose with 2-3 tbsp red brandy erst a week* up until a few life before you marzipan and ice the cover.

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