Recipe of Christmas cake

Christmas is not complete without a traditional Christmas cake. Let learn to cook a Christmas cake as a gift in Christmas party of your family.

Ingredients

•          200g currants
•          600g raisins/ sultanas
•          250g mixed candied/ dried fruits – finely chopped
•          400ml brandy/ booze, plus extra for feeding (sherry, rum all work well)
•         100g dried sour or glace cherries
•          300g butter (at room temperature)
•          200g brown sugar
•          4 eggs
•          1 lemon
•          300g plain flour
•          2 tsp treacle
•          1 tsp ground cinnamon
•          150g ground almonds
•          150g walnuts (chopped)
•          Mixed spices

How to make

•          If you have time, the night before, place the dried fruit in a saucepan with the booze and bring to simmer, then pour into a bowl (leave to soften), cover and put in the cool place.
•          Preheat the oven to 300ºF/150ºC/gas 2
•         Mix currants, sultanas, raisins, peel and cherries with the flour, salt and spices in a large bowl
•          Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy in another bowl. Stir in the lemon zest and beat the eggs at a time. Mix in the treacle. Sift the flour and combine with the spices and ground almonds. Mix with the butter mixture, alternating with the soaked fruit. Then, fold in the walnuts.
•          Spoon the mixture into the lined tin and bake in the oven for about 3 hours. Check after 2½ hours and then every 20 minutes.
•          As soon as the cake comes out of the oven, brush with a little more booze. Leave to cool in the tin for 5 minutes and then remove, placing it directly onto a large sheet of tin foil. Wrap it up twice to retain the heat for as long as possible. After a few hours, remove the foil and wrap the cake up again in a double sheet of greaseproof paper and a double sheet of tin foil, make sure you can access the cake from the top.  Once cooled prick the surface of the cake with a fine metal skewer and slowly pour over 2-3 tbsp brandy. This feeding should be repeated every two weeks up until Christmas. The cake should be stored wrapped in greaseproof or parchment paper in an airtight tin.

The following is the link to instructions, you can play the game and learn how to make cake:
 http://www.dressup24h.com/game/6512/Make-Christmas-cake-recipe.html
Wish you success and have a happy Christmas!