CHRISTMAS CAKE - HEARTFOUNDATION COOKBOOK

CHRISTMAS CAKE – HEART FOUNDATION COOK BOOK

Preparation Time
Approx 30mins and overnight standing of fruits

Cooking Time
3hours 3o minutes

Ingredients
• 1 Kg mixed dried fruit
• 150g glace apricots, chopped
• 150g glace cherries, chopped
• 50g glace ginger, chopped
• 250ml brandy
• 1 cup soft brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 3 eggs whites lightly beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 100g blanched almonds, roughly chopped
• 1 tablespoon lime ginger marmalade
• 60ml orange juice
• 2 cups plain flour
• ½ cup self-raising flour
• 2 teaspoons mixed spice

What to do
1. Put mixed dried fruit, apricots, cherries and ginger in a large bowl and mix. Pour over the brandy and stand overnight
2. Next day, Preheat oven to 150°c. Grease and line base and sides of a 20cm round tin, or 23cm square tin with 2 layers of bakng paper.
3. Put sugar, oil, egg whites and vanilla into a bowl and beat until smooth. Add almonds, marmalade and orange juice and stir through the dry fruit mixture.
4. Sift flours and spice into a large bowl, then fold in the fruit. Spoon mixture into a prepared tin, then tap tin on the bench to remove any air bubbles. Smooth surface with damp wet hands. Bring the greaseproof paper about 5cm above the tin, to make sure the cake doesn't darken to much during cooking.
Bake cake on the middle self of the oven for 3hrs 30minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean from the centre of the cake

Icing Recipe
• 1 egg white
• 2 teaspoons lemon juice
• ½ cup pure icing sugar, sifted
Blend all ingredients together until smooth