Slow Cooker Christmas Cake 4 Ingredients

Posted on the slow cooker recipe tips facebook group this cracking easy christmas cake only needs 4 ingredients mixed fruit chocolate milk baileys and self raising flour.

Slow cooker christmas cake 4 ingredients. Before you start ensure that your cake tin will fit in your slow cooker our cake tin had a lip around the rim that sat nicely over the stoneware bowl rim ensuring the cake tin was elevated above the base of the bowl. To store sprinkle with a few tablespoons of brandy or orange liqueur and freeze tightly wrapped. Place in bottom of a slow cooker with both ends hanging over the top edge of cooker. Read on for my recipe for a slow cooker christmas cake.

Made my first cake tasted nice had to ignore the hard burnt outside. This is a traditional style british christmas cake which is a fruit cake made with with dried fruit. Curtis stone and jane de graaff try the three ingredient christmas cake viral trend supplied the three ingredient cake is a trend that does the rounds every year and you can either pop the cake in your slow cooker for a steamed finish or do a straight up dry bake in the oven. Preheat oven to 125 c.

Stir the flour into the soaked fruit and mix well. Whatever takes my fancy. My cooker is a sainsbury s make 3 5 l 900w cooker i set it for 8 hrs and took it out 26 mins early as every time i tested it was not done in the middle so i might give to a go on 4 hrs on l 4 hrs on h or just cut the time on low not sure so varied with different makes and expensive to keep trying if not 100 result. The awesome facebook page s many followers were blown away by the amazing recipe see below with many vowing to make it come christmas.

1 kg mixed dried fruit. This recipe is from 4 ingredients christmas view cookbook. Either way it s a fantastic recipe. This lavish christmas cake pictured was cooked using just four ingredients and baked for eight hours in a slow cooker the cake was cooked for eight hours using a slow cooker on low.

3 cups fruit juice. Soak the dried fruit in the juice overnight. At times if i want to ramp it up a bit i ll replace part of the fruit and add chopped apricots prunes or dried cranberries to the equivalent to the amount of fruit i ve taken out. I soaked my fruit in black tea as i love the flavour and prefer a less boozy cake but you can also soak them in booze if you like brandy rum whisky go wild.

Due to the cooking method slow cooker the cake stays beautifully moist without having to be fed with any further alcohol on the lead up to christmas. To make foil handles. Both methods work but turn out slightly different results. 4 ingredient xmas cake is a success again this year.

3 cups self raising flour. It s such a versatile recipe. The foil strip will make it much easier to remove the cake when it s done.