9 Square Christmas Cake Recipe

I do actually like the cake as much as i can like a fruit cake it s the marzipan and icing that i m not fond of.

9 square christmas cake recipe. A cake with lots of candied dried fruits in them a spicy sweet flavor profile and the presence of an alcohol such as rum. So using delia s rich fruit cake we have calculated the ingredients list and cooking times for you. Level the top and cover with a disc of baking paper. Preheat the oven to 140ºc 275ºf gas mark 1.

We receive a lot of requests for wedding cakes and christmas cakes of varying sizes. Scaling cakes is always a little tricky but with rich fruit cakes such as christmas cakes the recipes are a little more forgiving. And then there s christmas pudding which confuses too christmas cake and fruitcake often refer to the same thing. The key step that makes this so much faster to make than other fruit cakes is the fruit soaking step most recipes call for dried fruit to be soaked overnight.

Place milk in a saucepan and heat just until it begins to boil. Take a 9 inch 23cm square or a 10 inch 26cm round cake tin. However the american version of fruitcake often differs significantly from. So now this is the recipe i always use.

Brush a 25cm 10 inch round cake tin or a 23cm 9 inch square cake tin with melted stork and fully line with a double thickness of non stick baking paper. Just microwave the dried fruit with juice and or brandy then stand for 1 hour to soak up the liquid. How to make christmas cake. This cake was my mums recipe who sadly no longer with us its a beautiful rich christmas cake i make every year for the whole family as a gifts.

Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin. This is a very dark rich fruit cake. Grease a deep 23cm round tin or 20cm square cake tin with butter line with a double layer of baking paper and grease the paper see golden rules. However as a general rule square tins hold.

The recipes for these two traditional holiday baked goods can be very similar. I made a couple of different cakes handed them to the christmas cake eaters and this was voted the favourite. Immediately remove from heat and stir in baking soda. Nigella gives a table of quantities for her traditional christmas cake in christmas p172 for 18cm 7 inch 23cm 9 inch and 25 5cm 10 inch round tins.

If your oven tends to run hot tie a single thickness of brown paper around the outside of the tin 2. Nigella s classic fruit cake recipes in both feast and christmas have tables for 3 different sizes of cake but to start you need to work out the round tin equivalent for your square tin as most cake recipes give tin sizes for round tins. Prepare a 9 inch square baking pan by greasing bottom sides and corners with butter.