2 Week Christmas Cake

Place it on wire rack to allow it to cool completely.

2 week christmas cake. This recipe includes dried cherries mango cranberries and currants soaked in rum overnight a week or a month or more is even better. A cake with lots of candied dried fruits in them a spicy sweet flavor profile and the presence of an alcohol such as rum. After it s baked it ages in cheesecloth with additional splashes of rum. This week it s light christmas cake and if you buy a delia online cake tin made by silverwood you will receive a 30 discount on the matching liners.

You need to feed the cake this way in every fortnight until christmas. With its two key ingredients rum and butter it ought to be a hit. It s an especially moist cake because i soaked the fruit in strong tea overnight before baking. It s a shame that fruitcake as a species gets such a bad rap.

Add 1 2 cup alcohol such as brandy cognac or rum to a large saucepan with a bit of orange zest place cake on top and heat until the liquor begins to simmer. You can ice this fail safe cake up to two weeks in advance. The week before you want to serve begin covering the cake. Cake of the week.

I was so pleased with myself this year for baking my christmas cake six weeks before christmas. And then there s christmas pudding which confuses too christmas cake and fruitcake often refer to the same thing. Put 1kg mixed dried fruit the zest and juice of 1 orange and 1 lemon 150ml brandy or other alcohol 250g softened butter and 200g light soft brown sugar in a large pan set over a medium heat. All is not lost though.

For the covering stand the cake upside down flat side uppermost on a cake board which is 5cm 2in larger than the size of the cake. The finished cake was wrapped in four layers of greaseproof paper and foil before being stored in an airtight box. However the american version of fruitcake often differs significantly from. Or you can go for our traditional best ever christmas cake.

The recipes for these two traditional holiday baked goods can be very similar. Make few tiny holes on the top of the cake with the skewer and brush the alcohol while the cake is still warm. Cover and steam for a few minutes spooning the sauce all over the cake. See the recipe for light christmas cake here.

You meant to make a christmas cake in early october feed it weekly with brandy let it mature marzipan it two weeks before and ice it one week before the big day and guess what you didn t. Remember stir up sunday is on 22 november this year. Delia s last minute brandied christmas cake recipe. Let it ripen for 10 weeks for best flavor.

Just don t feed the cake on the last week.