American Light Christmas Cake Recipe
- vegetarian
- 350 gm glace cherries
- 1 x 200g can of pineapple in natural juice
- 350 gm no soak dry apricots
- 100 gm whole almonds finely grated rind of 2 lemons
- 350 gm sultanas
- 250 gm selfraising flour
- 250 gm caster sugar
- 250 gm soft baking marganne
- 75 gm grnd almonds
- 5 x Large eggs to decorate: whole almonds blanched glace cherries halved to finish (optional)
- 100 gm icing sugar sifted
- Grease a 230mm deep round cake tin and line the base and sides with a double layer of greased greaseproof paper.
- Cut each cherry into quarters rinse and drain well.
- Drain and roughly chop the pineapple then dry both the cherries and pineapple very thoroughly on absorbent kitchen paper.
- Snip the apricots into pcs.
- Blanch the whole almonds in boiling water then skin and roughly chop.
- Place the prepared fruit and nuts in a large washingup or possibly mixing bowl with the grated lemon rind and sultanas and gently mix.
- Add in the remaining ingredients and beat well for I minute till smooth.
- Turn the mix into the prepared cake tin.
- Level the surface and decorate the top with blanched whole almonds and halved glace cherries.
- Stand a grill rack in its lowest position in the large roasting tin and place the cake on top.
- Slide the roasting tin nn to the lowest set of runners in the roasting oven with the cool plain shelf above on the second set of runners.
- Bake the cake for about 30 min till a pale golden the colour of a perfect Victoria sandwich.
- Watch very carefully.
- Then transfer roasting tin and cake to the simmering oven and cook for about a further 2 1/2 hrs till a skewer comes out clean when inserted into the cake.
- Cook on the grid shelf on the lowest set of runners in the baking oven for 1 hour sliding the cool plain shelf on to the set of runners above if the cake is getting too brown.
- Watch very carefully.
- Transfer to the simmering oven for a further 45 to 60 min till a skewer comes out clean when inserted into the cake.
- Leave to cold in the tin for about 30 min then turn out and cold completely on a wire rack.
- You am glaze the cake if liked.
- Mix the sieved icing sugar with sufficient water to give a thin icing and drizzle over the top of the cake.
- This is a little tricky to bake but just watch the colour carefully and you will be amply rewarded.
- It is very very important to drain and dry the fruit well.
- If they are at all wet the cake may become mouldy.
- Makes 1 cake
vegetarian, glace cherries, pineapple, apricots, lemons, sultanas, flour, caster sugar, baking marganne, almonds, eggs, sugar
Taken from cookeatshare.com/recipes/american-light-christmas-cake-64768 (may not work)