My Christmas Cake
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- Number of Servings: 30
Ingredients
125gms butter 1 cup liquid (1/2 cold water, 1/2 sherry, whiskey or rum)1 tsp baking soda1 tsp baking powder3/4 cup sugar1/2 tsp mixed spice1/2 tsp cinnamon1kg mixed dried fruit including glace cherries and peel2 TBLSP treacle or golden syrup1 tsp each of vanilla extract, rum, lemon and almond essences2 cups flour2 cups flour
Preheat your oven to 300 F
Boil together the fruit, sugar, liquid, spices, treacle and butter for 3 minutes. Remove from the heat.
Add the tsp baking soda, the mixture will foam up, stir well, set aside to cool.
Sift together the flour and baking powder.
beat the eggs and essences and add to the cooled fruit mixture.
Fold in the dry ingredients.
Spoon into a lined and greased 8 inch round or square cake tin.
Bake 2 1/2 - 3 hours at 275 - 300 F ( 135 - 150 C)
Cake is done when a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
Cut into 30 pieces.
Number of Servings: 30
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user MILLY61.
Boil together the fruit, sugar, liquid, spices, treacle and butter for 3 minutes. Remove from the heat.
Add the tsp baking soda, the mixture will foam up, stir well, set aside to cool.
Sift together the flour and baking powder.
beat the eggs and essences and add to the cooled fruit mixture.
Fold in the dry ingredients.
Spoon into a lined and greased 8 inch round or square cake tin.
Bake 2 1/2 - 3 hours at 275 - 300 F ( 135 - 150 C)
Cake is done when a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
Cut into 30 pieces.
Number of Servings: 30
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user MILLY61.
Nutritional Info Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 189.4
- Total Fat: 3.9 g
- Cholesterol: 23.1 mg
- Sodium: 38.8 mg
- Total Carbs: 36.5 g
- Dietary Fiber: 1.3 g
- Protein: 2.1 g
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