Mary Berry's Christmas Cake | delicious. Magazine
Mary Berry's classic Christmas cake is one of the most popular recipes on our website. The rich fruit cake is studded with plump dried fruits and finished with a good dash of brandy.
Serves
Ingredients:
425g currants
250g each sultanas and raisins
300g glacé cherries, quartered, rinsed and drained
150g ready-to-eat dried apricots, snipped into small pieces
75g mixed candied peel, roughly chopped
4 tbsp brandy, plus extra for pouring
300g plain flour
1 tsp ground mixed spice
½ tsp freshly grated nutmeg
300g softened unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing
300g dark muscovado sugar
5 medium free-range eggs
1 tbsp black treacle
Finely grated zest of 1 large lemon
Finely grated zest of 1 large orange
60g whole unblanched almonds, roughly chopped
Method:
1. Combine the dried fruit and candied peel in a large bowl. Add the 4 tbsp brandy and stir in to mix well. Cover and leave overnight.
2. Preheat the oven to 140°C/fan120°C/gas 1. Put the remaining ingredients except the almonds in a large bowl. Beat with a hand-held electric mixer until well combined. Stir in the nuts and the soaked fruit with any soaking liquid.
3. Grease a deep 23cm round tin or 20cm square cake tin with butter, line with a double layer of baking paper and grease the paper (see Golden Rules). Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin. Level the top and cover with a disc of baking paper.
4. Bake for 4-5 hours until firm to the touch and a skewer pushed into the middle comes out clean. Leave the cake to cool in the tin.
5. When the cake has cooled, remove the baking paper disc, pierce the top in several places with a skewer, then pour over a little brandy. Remove the cake from the tin but keep it in the baking paper. Wrap with more baking paper, then wrap with foil. Store in a cool place for up to 3 months to mature, occasionally unwrapping and spooning over 1-2 tbsp brandy.
6. Decorate the cake with glacé fruit, marzipan or ready-to-use icing. Tie a ribbon around the cake if you like before serving.
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NO EGGS! It's so delicious! Fig and Ginger Brown Sugar Snack Cake | No Eggs Cake Recipe
This Fig & Ginger Brown Sugar Snack Cake Recipe is AMAZING! No frosting needed! It is so delicious and satisfies your sweet tooth! Plus its made without eggs!
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Recipe:
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup cold butter
1 cup dried figs (or use dried cherries, blueberries, prunes, dates)
1 tsp ground ginger
Optional: 1 TBSP orange juice
If you don't have buttermilk, use 1 TBSP white vinegar in a 1 cup measuring cup, fill to top with milk. Whisk and let sit for 3-5 min then use.
1. Mix flour, brown sugar, 1 tsp vanilla, ginger and butter in bowl, slice butter into dough. Set aside 1 cup of mixture.
2. Add in the other 1 tsp vanilla, baking soda, and buttermilk. Mix well. Add in dried figs,
3. Grease cake pan well. Pat dough so batter is even. Add the 1 cup of flour crumbs to the top of cake.
Bake 350 for about 20-25 min.
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Ina's Fruitcake Cookies will convert even the most rabid fruitcake-hater.
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Fruitcake Cookies
Recipe courtesy of Ina Garten
Total: 14 hr 50 min
Prep: 30 min
Inactive: 14 hr
Cook: 20 min
Yield: 5 dozen small cookies
Level: Intermediate
Ingredients
1/2 pound dried figs
1/4 pound raisins
2 ounces candied cherries, coarsely chopped
2 ounces dried apricots, coarsely chopped
1 tablespoon honey
2 tablespoons dry sherry
1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
6 ounces chopped pecans
Kosher salt
1/2 pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 cup superfine sugar
1/3 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
1 extra-large egg
2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
Directions
Snip off the hard stems of the figs with scissors or a small knife and coarsely chop the figs. In a medium bowl, combine the figs, raisins, cherries, apricots, honey, sherry, lemon juice, pecans, and a pinch of salt. Cover with plastic wrap and allow to sit overnight at room temperature.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter, cloves, superfine sugar, and brown sugar on medium speed until smooth, about 3 minutes. With the mixer on low speed, add the egg and mix until incorporated. With the mixer still on low, slowly add the flour and 1/4 teaspoon salt just until combined. Don't over mix! Add the fruits and nuts, including any liquid in the bowl.
Divide the dough in half and place each half on the long edge of a 12 by 18-inch piece of parchment or waxed paper. Roll each half into a log, 1 1/2 to 1 3/4-inch thick, making an 18-inch-long roll. Refrigerate the dough for several hours, or until firm.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
With a small, sharp knife, cut the logs into 1/2-inch-thick slices. Place the slices 1/2-inch apart on ungreased sheet pans and bake for 15 to 20 minutes, until lightly golden.
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