Quick Christmas Cake
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Author: CluckMuckCook
Serves: 1
- 150g soft butter
- 150g dark muscovado sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 225g self-raising flour
- 1 heaped teaspoon mixed spice
- 225g mincemeat
- 200g mixed dried fruit (soaked in brandy)
- 50g pecans chopped
- Optional:
- Marzipan and fondant icing or nuts to decorate
- 1 tablespoon apricot jam to glaze
- Makes 1 large loaf cake
- Preheat the oven to 180c / 160C fan 140C/gas 3. Line a 2lb loaf tin with baking parchment.
- Cream the softened butter and sugar together either with a wooden spoon in a large bowl or a stand mixer.
- Add all the remaining ingredient into the bowl and beat well until thoroughly blended.
- Spoon into the lined loaf tin and level out.
- Bake in the preheated oven for about 1¼ - 1½ hours until the cake is golden brown and a skewer comes out clean when poked into the middle of the cake.
- Allow the cake to cool in the tin for a few minutes, turn out on to a wire rack and leave to cool.
- To decorate, warm the apricot jam in a small saucepan and brush over the top of the cake.
- Roll out the marzipan and icing and cut to just cover the top of the cake. Use the tin you baked it in as a guide. Place on top of the cake.
Recipe by Cluck, Muck & Cook at http://cluckmuckcook.co.uk/quick-christmas-cake/
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