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Light Christmas Cake
Over a year ago
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Cook: 150 mins
Serves: 20
Ingredients
- 6oz Cherries
- 6oz sultanas
- 4oz peel
- 6oz currants
- 2oz ground almonds
- 8oz butter or margarine
- 8 oz caster sugar
- 4 eggs
- 4oz Plain Flour (sieved)
- 4oz self raising flour
- 1 lemon
- 3 tbs brandy
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Description
Handed down through the family. A change from the regular christmas cake - my mum still makes it at 91.
Method
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1
Cream together butter and sugar.
Add beaten eggs and slowly whisk well.
Add flour and ground almonds and mix well.
Add rind and other dried fruit ingredients and juice of lemon and brandy and fold in well.
Line a 9 x 3inch tin with 2 layers of paper.
Add mixture to tin and cook for 2 hrs 30 ins approx.
Coat with almond paste and icing just before christmas.
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