Christmas Cake TrayBake
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This recipe is a quick and easy version of the classic Christmas cake. It's a lovely way to get into the Christmas spirit and a great thing to have in the house if you are expecting a few visitors over the Christmas season. It will keep in a cake tin for 2-3 weeks. You can also drizzle brandy to the top of the cake before you ice it. Just poke some holes into the baked cake and spoon a little brandy over the top. Leave to soak in for 20 mins and then top with marzipan and icing as below.
You'll need...
For the fruit cake...
175g Butter
175g Golden caster
sugar
3 Large eggs
175g Plain flour
1 ½ tsp mixed spice
500g Pre-soaked mixed
dried fruit
200g Glacé cherries
To decorate...
apricot jam
500g ready to roll
marzipan
500g ready to roll
royal icing sugar
silver balls
To make...
Preheat the oven to
170oC
Soften the butter in
the microwave for 30 seconds, add the sugar and mix well.
Beat in the eggs bit by
bit and mix in the flour and mixed spice.
Cut the cherries in
half and then add these along with the dried fruit.
Add baking paper to the
bottom of a traybake tin, mine measures 11 x 7 inches.
Add the cake mixture to
the tin and bake for 45-50mins.
Allow to cool
completely. Then take the cake carefully out of the tin, I flipped
mine onto a glass worktop saver. But this can be tricky as it is a
heavy cake!
Meanwhile take the
marzipan and roll out to the size of you traybake tin. This requires
some serious muscle power! I'd recommend to draw around your traybake
tin first on some baking paper. Warm the marzipan slightly in the
cooling over and add it to the baking paper. Then add another sheet
of baking paper to the top of the marzipan (so it is between two
sheets) and get rolling!
After this do the same
with your royal icing and roll out to the size of your traybake tin.
Finally piece it all
together, first add a few spoons of the jam to a small bowl and warm
in the microwave for 15seconds.
Take a brush and brush
the top of the cake with jam.
Add your rolled out
marzipan to the top of your cake and then your rolled out icing.
Trim the sides, taking
off all the excess marzipan and icing.
Top with silver balls
and cut into slices.
Ta da! You are now a
Christmas domestic goddess!
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