Christmas Cake Recipe Guardian

My granny used to make one every year sometimes dundee style topped with nuts and sticky with glaze and sometimes with bright white royal icing and tartan ribbon.

Christmas cake recipe guardian. Nigella lawson s traditional christmas cake recipe. My family don t have a christmas cake recipe or at least not one i can get my hands on. A family cake this makes a 20cm cake butter 250g light muscovado sugar 125g dark muscovado sugar 125g shelled hazelnuts 100g dried fruits ready to eat prunes apricots and figs candied peel. We ve distilled the choices down to our top 7 best christmas cake recipes.

With such a long and rich tradition the variations and options seem endless. Choosing the best christmas cake recipes is not an easy task. I ve never been a big lover of. By eliza acton s day however yeast had been largely replaced by eggs as in mr herbert m bower s recipe for ripon plum cake or christmas cake included in florence white s 1932 collection.

Grease a round 22 24cm x 9cm loose bottomed cake tin and line with parchment to come 4cm above the sides. Pulse half the hazelnuts until very fine add a quarter of the boozy fruit and blend to. A squidgy zesty christmas cake recipe to convince even the most diehard fruitcake denier felicity cloake wed 7 nov 2018 06 59 est last modified on tue 9 jul 2019 04 26 edt. Order a copy for 17 from the guardian bookshop where all nigella s books are on offer for christmas 2011 or download the ebook.