How to Make Favorite Christmas Cake with Almonds

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, christmas cake with almonds. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Christmas Cake with Almonds is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Christmas Cake with Almonds is something that I have loved my whole life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake with Almonds:

1. Get 2 1/4 cups (335 g) plain flour
2. Take 1 1/4 cup (220 g) brown sugar
3. Take 4 eggs
4. Make ready 300 g butter
5. Make ready 1 cup (160 g) raisins
6. Prepare 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. Get 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
10. Prepare 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
11. Take 1/4 cup blanched almonds
12. Get 3/4 cup (180 ml) brandy
13. Take 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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