Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, plum cake merry christmas. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Plum cake merry christmas is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Plum cake merry christmas is something that I have loved my whole life.
What excites us most about winters are the festivities in the air. Christmas is almost here and people across the world are gearing up for the merry celebrations, followed by the big night of New Year's eve. Most Christmas cake traditions point in the direction of the UK.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook plum cake merry christmas using 19 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Plum cake merry christmas:
- Get 1 cup raisins
- Make ready 1 cup dried apricots chopped
- Make ready 1 cup figs chopped
- Take 1/2 cup dried ginger chopped
- Get 1/2 cup candied orange peel chopped
- Take 3/4 cup Brandy
- Make ready 380 gms flour
- Prepare 225 gms butter melted
- Get 1.5 tsps baking powder
- Take 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
- Take 300 gms breakfast sugar
- Prepare 4 large egg
- Get 150 gms packed brown sugar
- Prepare 2 tbsp molasses
- Take 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- Get 1 cup toasted walnuts
- Take 1/2 cup of apricot jam
- Make ready 1/2 cup of warm water
You can hear Christmas carols as you walk through a church, the abodes of the people are ornate with festivities, there is the fresh aroma of plum cake in the market and the children are overjoyed with all the celebrations. The ritual of Christmas is incomplete without a delicious plum cake. Include a mouth-watering plum cake in the Christmas party. Christmas is the perfect day to exhilarate near and dear ones.
Steps to make Plum cake merry christmas:
- Stir together dried fruit, candied ginger, candied orange peel and brandy. Keep overnight.
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Butter two 9/5 inch loaf tins. Line them with butter paper. - In a bowl mix dry ingredients. Flour, baking powder, spices and salt. - In a mixer beat butter and both the sugars until smooth. Mix eggs one at a time followed by molasses and vanilla. Gradually add the flour mixture. Mix till smooth. Add the fruit mixture and walnuts.
- Divide the batter between the two tins. Bake for 1 hour and 35 minutes or till the tester comes out clean. Remove from oven and brush the top with more liquor. Remove and place on a wired rack. Heat the jam and water till smooth and glaze the top of the warmed cake.
- Important tips - - You can boil the dried fruit and candied fruit, strain and use immediately if running low on time. - - Brandy can be substituted with any other dark rum or orange flavoured liqueur. - - Use the best quality dried fruits available. - - Unglazed cakes can be shrink-wrapped and stored for up to one month in the fridge.
So, send your Christmas wishes and blessings to your loved ones in the form of a plum cake. Optional: Do the icing on the cake with sugar and egg. Add some jelly beans, mashmellows, tuty fruity for the topping. Do not allow the mix to be curdled while adding eggs to the mixture. Let the cake mature for a few hours and at least for a day.
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