anyone got a Christrmas cake recipe for a?

Question

9 inch wide and 2 inch deep round cake tin? thanks in advance

Answer 1

Christmas cake
Serves 8



Preparation time 30 mins to 1 hour

Cooking time over 2 hours







Ingredients
225g/8oz plain flour
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp mixed spice
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
200g/7oz butter
200g/7oz dark brown sugar
2 tbsp black treacle
1 tbsp marmalade
1/4tsp vanilla essence
4 eggs, lightly beaten
800g/1 3/4 lb mixed dried fruits
100g/3 1/2 oz chopped mixed peel
150g/5oz glace cherries, halved
100g/3 1/2 oz blanched almonds, chopped
brandy

To Decorate the Cake:
200g/7oz marzipan
1-2 tbsp apricot jam, warmed
Royal Icing
3 egg whites
600g/1lb 5oz icing sugar, sieved
11/2tsp liquid glycerine - optional
1 tbsp lemon juice



Method
1. Heat the oven to 150C/300F/Gas2. Grease a 20cm/8inch round or an 18cm/7inch square cake tin and line the bottom and sides with baking parchment.
2. Sieve the flour, salt, mixed spice and cinnamon into a bowl.
3. Cream the butter and the sugar in a large mixing bowl and then mix in the sugar, treacle, marmalade and vanilla essence until light and fluffy.
4. Mix the eggs a little at a time into the mixture adding a tablespoon of flour mixture with the last amount.
5. Fold in the remaining flour mixture until well mixed and then mix in the dried fruit, mixed peel, glace cherries and the almonds.
6. Turn the mixture into the prepared tin and make a slight hollow in the centre.
7. Bake in the oven for 3 hours and then test with a skewer. If not ready bake for up to another hour testing every 20 minutes until the skewer comes out clean.
8. Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin for 15 minutes.
9. Turn out on to a wire rack and leave to cool.
10. Once cool, make a few holes in the cake with a skewer and pour over 3-4 tbspof brandy. Let the brandy soak into the cake.
11. Store the cake wrapped in foil and in an airtight tin or plastic container, holes side up.
12. OPTIONAL: For a rich and moist cake, spoon over a few tablespoons of brandy every week until you are ready to ice and decorate your cake.

To Decorate the Cake:
1. Place the cake on a foil board or cake plate.
2. Dust your hands and the work surface with a little icing sugar and knead the marzipan until soft.
3. Roll out half the marzipan to fit the top of the cake and roll out the rest in strips to fit around the sides of the cake.
4. Brush the cake all over with the warmed apricot jam and then place the marzipan on top and around the cake.
5. Cover the cake with a clean tea towel and then leave in a cool place for at least one day.
6. To make the icing, lightly whisk the egg whites adding the sugar at intervals. Beat well until the icing reaches soft peaks. Add the glycerine if using and the lemon juice.
7. Spread icing all over cake either flat iced using a clean ruler or by forming soft peaks. Decorate with Christmas ornaments.

Answer 2

hi there i have a vodka and red bull xmas cake recipe

Vodka & Red Bull Christmas Cake

Ingredients:

1 cup water
1 cup of brown sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup of sugar
1 tsp salt
Lemon Juice
4 large eggs
Nuts
1 bottle of Vodka
1 can of Red Bull
2 cups dried fruit

Method:

1. Sample the vodka to check the quality.

2. Take a large bowl, check the vodka again.

3. To be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and mix with a little red bull and drink

4. Repeat.

5. Turn on the electric mixer, beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl

6. Add one teaspoon of sugar. Beat again.

7. At this point its is best to make sure the vodka is still ok.

8. Flavour with red bull to taste.

9. Try another cup - just in case turn off the mixerer.

10. Break two leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit

11. Pick fruit off floor

12. Mix on the turner.

13. If the dried fruit gets stuck in the beaterers, pry it loose with a drewscriver

14. Shample the vodka to check for tonsisticitity, flavour with a little red bull

15. Next ssiffft two cups of salt. Or something ? Who giveshz a shi**

16. Throw a pinch of Bed Rull over your shoulder

17. Pick up the can, mop the floor

18. Check the vodka

19. Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts.

20. Add one table.

21. Add a shpoon of shugar, or somefink.
Whatever you can find.

22. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over..

23. Don't forget to beat off the turner

24. Finally, throw the bowl through the window - finish the vodka.

25. Fall into bed.

CHERRY MISTMAS

Answer 3

this fruitcake is great for Xmas

http://indorecipe.com/index.php?option=com_ricettario&func=detail&Itemid=26&id=380


* 8-12 tbsps mixed candied fruits
* 2 tbsps softened butter
* 6 tbsps margarine
* 2 eggs
* 2 tbsps + 1/4 tsp light rum essence
* 2 heaping tbsps cream for coffee
* 2 heaping tbsps honey
* 1/2 cup sugar
* 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
* 1/2 tsp baking powder


Preheat oven to 350 F.

Mix flour and baking powder, set aside.

In a large bowl, cream the butter and margarine with the sugar and honey. Beat in the eggs, then the coffee cream and rum essence. Beat in the mixture of flour gradually. Stir in the mixed fruits.

Pour batter into a greased and floured baking pan (if it's non silicone pan/mold, flour it, but if it's silicone, you don't need to flour it but just grease it).

Bake for 10 minutes; lower the heat to 325 F, then bake for another 30-40 minutes or until knife inserted comes out clean.

Answer 4

Hi.for a 9" round or 8" square tin you will need..currants-14 oz..sultanas=8oz..raisins=6oz..glace cherries=4oz ready to eat dried apricots=4oz...candied peel=20z...brandy=3 tables spoons...plain flour=8oz...grated nutmeg=1/4 teasp...ground mixed spice=1/2teasp....soft margarine=10 oz ...dark muscovada sugar=10oz..this is from the mary berry book,and is the recipe i use every year it is a nice moist and rich cake .i hope it helps xx

Answer 5

Was just looking at this for myself - http://www.deliaonline.com/cookery-school/scaling-up-cake-recipes,1002,AR.html

gives scaling up and down tin sizes.

Her recipe is pretty good too!

Answer 6

you wanna try get a ready-made chirstmas cake? i know of this great website where you can order great cakes online. try this out. the log cakes are great!

Answer 7

yellow classical cake (or) choclate cake (or) angle food cake