Christmas Cake Recipe Using Stout

Line a 10 inch 25 cm cake tin square or round on bottom and sides.

Christmas cake recipe using stout. Mix in the stout or milk. Preheat the oven to 160 degrees. If you ve never made a christmas pudding please don t be put off by the eight hours steaming it isn t any work it just sits happily on its own getting the long slow cooking which is what gives it. Bake in the oven for 45 to 50 minutes or until a skewer can be inserted and removed without any cake batter attached.

Stir in dried fruit and mixed peel cover and leave to. Smash up the beetroot while it is still in the packet with a rolling pin. Preheat the oven to 160 c gas 2 1 2. Once the icing is nice and smooth ice the top of the cake generously with the icing.

Add beaten eggs very gradually keeping mixer on medium speed. Put 1kg mixed dried fruit the zest and juice of 1 orange and 1 lemon 150ml brandy or other alcohol 250g softened butter and 200g light soft brown sugar in a large pan set over a medium heat. Put the mixture into a well greased lined tin. Soak all the dried fruit in stout for 24 hours or more.

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Chocolate stout christmas cake recipe. This is quite definitely the best and like the christmas cake has been made and loved by a cast of thousands over forty years. Stout gives colour and flavour to the cake. Delia s traditional christmas pudding recipe.

To make the icing whisk both ingredients in a bowl until a light fluffy well incorporated icing is made. The slight bitterness offsets this sweet cake beautifully. Bake in a moderate oven for about 3 hours or until a skewer comes clean. I have adapted my maternal grandmothers never fail easy boiled fruit cake recipe and added castle chocolate milk stout which gives it a lovely depth of flavour.

I also can t believe how easy it is to make and is now my go to recipe for fruit cake and will be what i make this christmas. To thoroughly combine ingredients and incorporate air with a rapid circular. Beetroot chocolate stout christmas cake directions. Allow the cake to cool before icing.

To cook in an oven.