Small Christmas Cake Recipe

You can get the same christmas flavour from these dainty mini cakes.

Small christmas cake recipe. Line the base and sides of a 20 cm round 7 5 cm deep cake tin. Beat the butter and sugar with an electric hand mixer for 1 2 mins until very creamy and pale in colour scraping down the sides of the bowl half way through. Divide the cake batter evenly between the cups of the tin and bake on a low shelf for about 25 minutes or until well risen golden brown and a skewer inserted into the centres comes out clean. Melted and sieved apricot jam.

For the covering stand the cake upside down flat side uppermost on a cake board which is 5cm 2in larger than the size of the cake. Preheat oven to 170 c gas 3. I take a speedy approach. Cover tightly and store at room temperature.

Soak dried fruit in 4 tablespoons brandy or rum for at least 24 hours. Repeat with remaining cakes. 8cm wide mini christmas cake taken from the centre of the christmas wreath cake see goes well with. How to make christmas cake.

Alternatively they make wonderful homemade christmas gifts for friends or neighbours. Heat oven to 160c fan 140c gas 3. Roll out white fondant between 2 sheets of plastic wrap and cut out circles with the same diameter as the cakes. Gold or silver edible.

Brush the top of each cake with half of the apricot. White ready to roll fondant icing. The key step that makes this so much faster to make than other fruit cakes is the fruit soaking step most recipes call for dried fruit to be soaked overnight. And here s how the making part goes down.

Cool the cakes in the tin for 2 3 minutes then turn onto a wire rack and leave until completely cold. Press a cookie stencil with a snowflake pattern onto the fondant circles. Brush the sides and the top of the cake with the warm apricot jam.