Christmas Cake
Ingredients
- 200g Butter
- 200g moist Brown Sugar
- 5 Eggs
- 200g Plain Flour
- 200g Sultanas
- 300g Currants
- 50g Cherries
- 100g Chopped Peel
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 2 tsp Black Treacle
- 50g ground Almonds
- 1/2 tsp Mixed Spice
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
Method
- Grease and line an 18cm round tin with three layers of greased greaseproof paper.
- Pre-heat oven to 170ºC or 150ºC fan
- Cream butter and sugar.
- Beat in each egg separately with a teaspoon of flour.
- When the mixture is light add remainder of flour with baking powder, salt, spice and ground almonds and mixed fruit.
- Add warmed black treacle.
- Pour into tin. Turn oven temperature down to 150ºC when cake goes in for 21/2 hours, then 140ºC for 1 hour.