Christmas Cake with Almonds

Name: Christmas Cake with Almonds
Yield: 8-12 servings
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 2 1/4 cups (335 g) plain flour; 1 1/4 cup (220 g) brown sugar; 4 eggs; 300 g butter; 1 cup (160 g) raisins; 2 1/4 cups (306 g) sultanas; 3/4 cup (120 g) currants; 1 cup (140 g) chopped dates; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg; 1/4 cup blanched almonds; 3/4 cup (180 ml) brandy; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate soda

Christine Siteyi @cook_9391262

Christmas season calls for Christmas cake.

Christine Siteyi @cook_9391262

Christmas season calls for Christmas cake.

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Ingredients

8-12 servings

2 1/4 cups (335 g)plain flour
1 1/4 cup (220 g)brown sugar
4eggs
300 gbutter
1 cup (160 g)raisins
2 1/4 cups (306 g)sultanas
3/4 cup (120 g)currants
1 cup (140 g)chopped dates
1 teaspoonground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoonground nutmeg
1/4 cupblanched almonds
3/4 cup (180 ml)brandy
1 teaspoonvanilla extract
1/4 teaspoonbicarbonate soda

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Steps

1

Preheat oven to 150ºC (300ºF).
2

Soak raisins, sultanas, currants, almonds, dates, brandy, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla in a bowl. Mix well and cover and leave overnight.
3

Cream butter and sugar in a bowl until light and creamy.
4

Add eggs one at a time beating well after each egg addition.
5

Drain soaked fruits and put aside.
6

Sift flour and bicarbonate soda over drained fruit mixture mixing well. Make sure all fruits are coated.
7

Once all fruits are coated put in creamed butter and sugar mixture and stir well.
8

Pour into prepared cake tin. Place almonds on top as decor and bake for 3 hours 10 minutes, or until it passes the skewer test (should come out clean).
9

Allow to cool in tin.

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Christine Siteyi @cook_9391262

on December 22, 2017 18:58

Comments (5)

Norikazu Owen Ogawa @cook_6710315

January 16, 2018 13:54

Dear Christine, hope all is well. I am Owen from Cookpad in charge of the African regions. I am sincerely thankful of your posting quality baking recipes, which I am sure that our community will highly appreciate.Also, after the healthy baking contests which will be over in 1 day, we would like to have one more recipe contest around baking theme. I would appreciate it if you could tell us what kind of baking theme (e.g. sponge cake, baking for kids, cookie, bread, etc…) you and your friends would be most interested at.Thanks again for your continued engagement with cookpad Kenya. Hope you will continue to be happy with us.
Best regards,
Owen

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