Christmas cake

Ingredients for Christmas cake

Instructions for Christmas cake

To prepare the Christmas cake recipe, please follow these instructions:

Currants, sultanas, raisins and sukat and cocktail cherries mixed. The peel of a lemon grated-beware, the white membrane does not come with. The juice pressed. The tonsils slipped and chopped and stirred together with fruits, together with the lemon zest and juice and 2 tbsp. brandy.

Flour and spices is poured through a sieve into another bowl.

Butter and sugar whisked together in about 10 min. to the mixture is light and airy. The eggs are whisked in, one at a time, along with a little flour to prevent the mixture stiffens.

First stir fruit mixture into the mass and then melblandingen.

Came the dough in a greased springform (20 cm.) well lined with baking paper, press it down firmly in the edge and smooth the surface. Bake at 150 degrees c. alm. oven for 3 ½-4 hours, until the cake is firm. Pricked in the middle with a stick, which is to come clean out again. If the surface of the "pie" becomes too Brown before finishing the baking time, covered with foil.

Allow to cool in the form. Invert the cake onto a platter and paper covers. The pricked all over with a thin stick and smear with a spoon with the remaining brandy.

The cake be wrapped in a double layer of greaseproof paper and then in foil. Keep cool and dry so it can stay for up to 12 months.

Before serving garnish the cake with glazed fruit slices.