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Traditional Christmas Cake

Try your hand at this delicious Traditional Tasti Christmas Cake this festive season! Make in advance and feed regularly with brandy, then add the finishing touches just in time for Christmas.

INGREDIENTS

500g Tasti Fruit Mix

100g Tasti Slivered Almonds

100g Tasti Ground Almonds

280g Plain Flour

1 tsp Mixed Spice

1 tsp Cinnamon

150ml of Brandy + extra for maturing

Zest of 2 Lemons

225g Butter or Margarine

225g Soft Dark Brown Sugar

5 Large Eggs

METHOD

  1. Soak the Tasti fruit mix in brandy overnight.

  2. Stir the slivered almonds into the mix.

  3. Mix the flour, ground almonds, mixed spice, cinnamon and lemon zest together. Add to the fruit mix and stir.

  4. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, then gradually beat in the eggs.

  5. Preheat your oven to 150°C.

  6. Add the butter / sugar /eggs into the fruit mix and then stir until fully combined. Turn into a lined 9" cake tin and flatten the top. If using a fan oven, tent the cake with foil. Bake for 2 1/2 - 3 hours or until a skewer comes out clean.

  7. Cool in the tin overnight.

  8. To store the cake, wrap it in greaseproof paper and then in tin foil and place back into the tin.

  9. Every fortnight, spoon 2-3 tsp of brandy over the cake to mature it until a week or so out from Christmas, when you will cover with almond paste or marzipan.

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