Christmas Cake recipe
I found this Quick and Easy Fruit Cake recipe and it’s the one that people seem to like the most out of the few recipes I’ve tried so we’re sticking with this one from now on 🙂
Ingredients
120g/4oz Margarine
170g/6oz Sugar
340g/14oz Dried Fruit – I buy the mixed fruit bags as it works out cheaper. We also add a full tub of cherries because Ant likes whole cherries and lots of them in a fruit cake!
225ml/8floz Water
1 teaspoon Bicarbonate of Soda
1 half teaspoon Mixed Spice
2 Beaten Eggs
120g/4oz Plain Flour
120g/4oz Self Raising Flour
Pinch of Salt
You will need a 7″/18ch square cake tin or a 8″/20cm round cake tin. The ones with the removable bottoms are easiest.
Coat the inside of the tin with margarine then line with 2 layers of greaseproof paper.
Pre-heat the oven to 350°F/180°C/Gas Mark 4
Ok, if all your prep work is done, we’ll make a start 🙂
Put the margarine, sugar, fruit, water, bicarb and mixed spice in a saucepan and heat gently. Bring to the boil then simmer for one minute.
Pour the batter into a mixing bowl and allow to cool. Make sure it’s cool before you add the eggs….we don’t want them cooking in the batter.
Once you’ve mixed the eggs into the batter, add the flour and salt and mix well.
Pour into your tin and cover the top of the cake with another piece of greaseproof paper. This helps stop the top from burning.
Cook in the middle of the oven for about an hour and a quarter. Check it’s cooked through by inserting a skewer into the middle of the cake. If it comes out clean, your cake is ready.
Allow to cool on a wire rack before covering with marzipan and icing.
I’ve used a Christmas cake frill from the supplies my Nan-nan gave me when she gave up cake making. I’ve recently seen them on sale in either Tesco or Asda, or perhaps both (I’ve been doing lots of browsing on both stores what with Christmas coming up and I’m starting to get confused as to which shop has the items I need!) and the price is quite good.
I bought the centre decoration from Asda. It came with ribbon but I wanted an old-fashioned frill! These kind of frills were always on Christmas cakes when I was younger 🙂
If you need some decorating inspiration, I have a couple of ideas on my Christmas Pinterest board.
I’m linking my post up to Festive Friday over at Thinly Spread.
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It seems delicious!!!
Wonderful recipe! Thank you for sharing it with us! I just can't wait to try it out!
I'd never made a fruit cake this way either but everyone said how nice and moist it was.
It was annoying having to wait for it cool down when I just wanted to get on and get it finished so I will probably only use this method when I've got my patient head on!
This is my favourite linky so thank you for running it 🙂 xx
Delicious! I've never made my cake like this, I do the creaming method but this looks fab…I may have to make another one! I too love the traditional frills, Christmas memories from childhood! Thanks so much for linking up again! x