Wishing everyone Merry Christmas.
Ingredients A (Cake):
- 450g currants
- 175 sultanas
- 175 raisins
- 50g cherries
- 50g mix chopped peel
- 3 tablespoon brandy
- 225g flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon grated nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon ground mix spice
- 225g unsalted butter
- 225g brown sugar
- 4 large egg
- 50g silvered almonds
- 2 teaspoon black treacle / honey
- zest of ½ lemon
- zest of ½ orrange
- 3 tablespoon brandy (optional)
- 1 egg white
- castor sugar
- icing sugar
- black grapes
- kumquats
- cherries
- pine cone
- strawberries
- pine leaves
- In a large bowl, add currants, sultanas, raisins, cherries and mix chopped peel with with 3 tablespoon of brandy. Mix well and soak for 24 hours.
- Sift the flour into another large bowl. Add salt, grated nutmeg, and ground mix spice into the sifted flour.
- Break and whisk 4 large eggs into a small bowl.
- Add the butter & brown sugar into the blender bowl and blend until smooth and fluffy.
- Now, spoon in the egg mixture, a little at a time. Let it blend for another minute.
- Add the blended mixture to the sifted flour and spices. Fold the mixtures.
- Now, pour in the mixed fruits, silvered almonds, orange zest, lemon zest and black treacle. Once more, fold the ingredients well.
- Prepare the baking tin. Place the baking tin upside down onto the baking paper and cut 2 round baking paper(for the bottom of the tin) and a long rectangle side baking paper for the side of the baking tin.
- Grease the baking tin with a knob of butter. Put in the baking paper and grease that too.
- Spoon the cake mixture into the prepared baking tin. Then place the other circle baking paper on top of the cake mixture to keep the moisture in the cake.
- Place the cake into the preheat oven and bake for about 2 hours with 150°c. (time vary with different oven.)
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