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Traditional Christmas Fruit Cake
Traditional Christmas Fruit Cake
Packed with juicy raisins, cherries, nuts and much more, every spoon of our delicious Christmas fruit cake is full of flavour.
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Serves 8
Ingredients
- 1 sheet baking parchment
- 200g butter, softened
- 200g dark muscovado sugar
- 200g plain flour
- 4 eggs, beaten
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 50g ground almonds
- 100ml sherry
- 85g mixed peel
- 85g glacé cherries, chopped
- 250g raisins
- 250g currants
- 100g pecan nuts, broken into pieces
- 1½ tsp orange juice
- 1 lemon, finely grated zest only
- ½ tsp mixed spice
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
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Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 160°C/325°F/Gas 3. Line the base and sides of a 20cm round, 7½cm deep cake tin with baking parchment. Beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer for 1-2 minutes until pale and creamy. Stir in a spoonful of flour, then the beaten egg and the rest of the flour alternately, a quarter at a time, beating well. Stir in the baking powder and almonds.
- Mix in the sherry, then add the mixed peel, cherries, raisins, currants, nuts, orange juice, lemon zest, spices and vanilla. Stir well.
- Spoon into the tin and smooth the top, making a slight dip in the centre. Bake for 30-45 minutes, then lower the oven temperature to 150°C/300°F/Gas 2 and bake for a further 2-2¼ hours, until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Leave to cool in the tin, then remove and peel off the lining paper. When completely cold, wrap in clingfilm and foil to store until ready to decorate. The cake will keep for several months.
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