christmas cake receipe

animalcarer · Senior Member

christmas cake receipe

Sheba · Guru

Have you tried the Search box ? Or just go to the bottom of the "What's Cooking?" page, and check out all the reipes. Only 7 pages. There is one on Page 5, plus some other fruit cake reipes.

Cheers,

Sheba.

-- Edited by Sheba on Sunday 13th of November 2011 11:40:10 PM

Gerty Dancer · Guru

Google Christmas cake recipe. Theres thousands!
I make a boiled fruit cake which is very easy, and for a Christmas special add extra cherries, brandy, whatever.

Pejay · Guru

Ah Lynette,

Thought you might like to try the following - my Mother-in-law gave it to me, and every trip we do, I have to make it for Pete, and take enough ingredients (or buy 'em) if the one I take with us runs out. An 8" square cake lasted just 6 days on a trip to Townsville earlier this year - a total of 1300 K's!!

Amy's Fruit Cake

125g butter
500g mixed fruit *
450g tin crushed pineapple - drained
400g tin condensed milk

Boil above ingredients for 5 minutes - let cool - add 1 tsp bi-carb soda

Fold in:
2 beaten eggs
1 cup SR Flour
1 cup Plain Flour
2 tsp mixed spice

Line an 8" square cake tin with baking paper, then bake for 1 1/2 hours @ 160 deg c.

* I use a 375g mixed fruit & 200g fruit medley - and soak them ovenight in a BIG slurp of brandy, but have been know to use rum when I have run out of brandy.

Hope you like it as much as we do.

-- Edited by Pejay on Thursday 17th of November 2011 02:35:49 PM

Popeye · Senior Member

Diebetic Fruit Cake

500 gr Dried Fruit

1 Cup Apricot Nector

1 Teaspoon honey

1 Cup mashed pumkin

1 ½ Cups s-r flour

1 Teaspoon mixed spice

1 teaspoon Bicarb

Put :- Fruit Honey Nector inSaucepan bring to boil.

Simmer 3-5 mins

ALLOW TO COOL

Stir in remaining ingredients

Place in greased loaf pan

Bake in mod oven 1hr. Aprox

Col in pan cover with foil

HeadnHome · Senior Member

thanks for the diabetic receipe popeye, looks pretty simple so might give that one a go for my mum.

animalcarer · Senior Member

I am going to make them both, they sound very good.

One for Howard and one for me.

Elle on Wheels · Guru

Good on you. How many of us lot will be on the road at xmas I wonder? I used to go to orphan xmas events in various places and they were great fun.

Ma · Guru

We will hopefully be on the banks of a river somewhere in Tassie with our ham sangas and a bottle of bubbly come Christmas Day.

The Gnome · Senior Member

Made the diabetic cake with a couple of additions.Used mashed sweet potato instead of pumpkin.Soaked fruit for 2 days in 50ml Bundy + 50ml my home made cumquat liqueur. FANTASTIC

Ma · Guru

make sure you bring some with you next year won't you G nomeeee

The Gnome · Senior Member

No problems there Ma , will be able to knock 'em up as required in the Turbo oven when ever we are near 240v for an hour or so.

Ma · Guru

OK, so that means if you are bringing the turbo I will bring the slow cooker

Popeye · Senior Member

Made & tried this today yum

Mushroom Cake

Ingredients

125g butter

3/4 cup castor sugar

Few drops vanilla essence

2 eggs, lightly beaten

2 cups self-raising flour, sifted

1/2 cup milk

400g mushrooms, finely chopped

1/2 cup walnuts

1/2 cup honey

Icing sugar

Method

Preheat oven to 180C. Lightly grease a medium baking tin.

Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then add the vanilla.

Add eggs slowly, beating well. Add flour alternatively with milk, finishing with flour.

Sprinkle in the mushrooms, walnuts and honey, combining thoroughly.

Spread into prepared tin. Bake on centre shelf of oven for about 35 minutes.

Allow cake to cool then sprinkle with icing sugar.

Ma · Guru

Never heard about using mushrooms in a cake, but hey, I'll give anything a go. Will have to wait till I get home though, don't have the turbo with me and the van doesn't have an oven.

Elle on Wheels · Guru

Ma wrote:
Never heard about using mushrooms in a cake, but hey, I'll give anything a go. Will have to wait till I get home though, don't have the turbo with me and the van doesn't have an oven.

Reckon they are magic mushrooms Ma - lots of them in Tassie

animalcarer · Senior Member

Oh you are so cute gnomeeee

I want to pop you in my handbag and take you down the shops. heeheee

cannylass · Senior Member

I make the lazy woman Xmas cake Buy a no name dark fruit cake, poke holes in it with a knitting needle and pore brandy into the hole wrap in foil until ready to marzipan and ice or top with hole almonds never had a complaint yet mind I have never told anyone what I do wink wink wink