Recipe of Quick Christmas Cake with Almonds

Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, christmas cake with almonds. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook christmas cake with almonds using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake with Almonds:

1. Prepare 2 1/4 cups (335 g) plain flour
2. Take 1 1/4 cup (220 g) brown sugar
3. Get 4 eggs
4. Prepare 300 g butter
5. Take 1 cup (160 g) raisins
6. Get 2 1/4 cups (306 g) sultanas
7. Prepare 3/4 cup (120 g) currants
8. Make ready 1 cup (140 g) chopped dates
9. Prepare 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
10. Make ready 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
11. Prepare 1/4 cup blanched almonds
12. Get 3/4 cup (180 ml) brandy
13. Get 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
14. Get 1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate soda

Steps to make Christmas Cake with Almonds:

1. Preheat oven to 150ºC (300ºF).
2. Soak raisins, sultanas, currants, almonds, dates, brandy, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla in a bowl. Mix well and cover and leave overnight.
3. Cream butter and sugar in a bowl until light and creamy.
4. Add eggs one at a time beating well after each egg addition.
5. Drain soaked fruits and put aside.
6. Sift flour and bicarbonate soda over drained fruit mixture mixing well. Make sure all fruits are coated.
7. Once all fruits are coated put in creamed butter and sugar mixture and stir well.
8. Pour into prepared cake tin. Place almonds on top as decor and bake for 3 hours 10 minutes, or until it passes the skewer test (should come out clean).
9. Allow to cool in tin.

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