Blogmas day 2 • Christmas cake • Recipe and Method

Blogmas day two is a Christmas Cake recipe for you. I make my cake in November to make sure I have time to feed it, but you can just soak the fruit and leave a week before icing the cake.

I made a 7 inch square cake to cut in half. and here is the recipe for you all.

- 965g Mixed fruit

- 50g Ground almonds

- 100g Glace cherries

- 200g Plain flour

- 1tsp Mixed spice

- 200g Butter

- 200g Brown Sugar

- 1 Lemon rind and zest

- 4 standard eggs

- 100ml rum/brandy/sherry

Method

- Preheat oven to 200oc/ gas mark 6

- Line sides and bottom of cake tin with double parchment paper

- Cream butter and sugar until fluffy

- Beat in eggs one at a time, if starts to curdle add a little flour

- Add rind and juice of the lemon

- Mix flour, ground almonds and spice together

- Toss mixed fruit and cherries into flour

- Add fruit and flour to other ingredients a little at a time, add half the rum ( or soak the fruit in alcohol overnight) Save some to feed the cake

Gets a bit complicated here

- Place mixture into the prepared tin and press down to make it even. 

- Tie brown paper around the outside of the tin so its about 2 inches above tin

- Place on baking tray and place in the middle of the oven

- Turn oven down to gas 160oc/ mark 3 for 1 hour

Turn oven down to 150oc/ gas mark 2 for the next hour

- Turn oven down to 140oc/ gas mark 1 for the final hour

- Check mixture every 30 mins after until a skewer come outs clean

- Feed for next week

- Marzipan and Ice

I would love to see if you recreate this or ahare some pictures of your Christmas cakes

Happy Blogmas

x🎄x

**Reused from last year**