Five ingredient Christmas cake
Most Christmas cake recipes call for lots of ingredients. Not this one, but it tastes just as good!
Serves: 14
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 4 hours
Cooling time: 1 hour
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You will need
- 200g unsalted English butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
- 200g Fairtrade dark brown soft sugar
- 4 medium British free range Woodland eggs, lightly beaten
- 225g British plain flour
- 1kg pre-soaked mixed fruit
Recipe Information
Step by step guide to making Five ingredient Christmas cake
- Preheat the oven to 150°C, fan 130°C, gas mark 2. Grease a 19cm round cake tin and line the bottom and sides with baking parchment.
- Put the butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl. Cream together using a hand-held electric whisk.
- Gradually whisk in the eggs, then fold in the flour and the mixed fruit. Spoon the mixture into the tin and smooth the top.
- Bake for about 3 hours 45 minutes to 4 hours (cover with greaseproof paper if it's getting too brown) or until a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
- Cool in the tin for 15 minutes. Turn out onto a wire rack to cool. Decorate as you wish when cold (see Cook's tip for the candy cane suggestion shown above).
- To store, wrap in a double layer of baking parchment and a layer of foil and store in an airtight tin. The un-iced cake will keep for up to 6 weeks (pierce with a skewer and 'feed' with brandy every week, if you like). Once iced, the cake will keep for a further 3 months.
Cook's tip: Brush all over with warmed apricot jam. Roll out a 454g pack white marzipan to 30cm in diameter and use to cover the cake. Brush the marzipan with a little brandy, then roll out a 500g pack soft white icing to cover the cake. Trim around the base. Cut out slim triangles from the trimmings and position in a circle in the middle of the cake, as though the icing has been peeled back. Use a little water to stick in place. Tie 5 candy canes together with ribbon and sit in the middle of the cake. Tie a matching ribbon around the cake to finish.
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Nutritional information for Five ingredient Christmas cake
Nutritional information for Five ingredient Christmas cake
Nutrition type | per serving |
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Calories | (per serving of iced cake) 507 kcal |
Total Fat | 14.4g |
Saturated Fat | 6.9g |
Salt | 0.06g |
Sugar | 80.3g |
This recipe is:
- Vegetarian
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