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Christmas Cake
A rich British dried fruit Christmas cake with sherry and marzipan icing. Soaking the dried fruit in sherry overnight before baking plumps it up so it stays moist through the long, slow bake instead of drying out.
Total time
930 min
Prep
720 min
Cook
210 min
Difficulty
hard
Cuisine
British
vegetarian
Ingredients
350geach: sultanas, currants, and raisins
175gglacé cherries, halved
175gmixed peel
6 tbspsherry or brandy
275gplain flour
1 tspmixed spice
1 tspcinnamon
275gbutter, softened
275gdark brown sugar
6eggs
2 tbsptreacle
zest of 1orange and 1 lemon
marzipan and royal icingto cover
Instructions
1
Soak all fruits in sherry overnight.
2
Beat butter and sugar. Beat in eggs and treacle.
3
Fold in flour, spices, zest and soaked fruit.
4
Bake at 150°C for 3-3.5 hours in a lined cake tin.
5
Feed with brandy weekly until decorated.
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