My Mother’s salt-baked Christmas cake

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This recipe calls for the cake to be placed onto a bed of salt while it is baking. This acts as an insulator which helps to create an even, gentle bake.

My Mother’s salt-baked Christmas cake

Serves

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People

Prep Time

20

Minutes

Cooking Time

240

Minutes

CUISINE

COURSE

Baking

Method

  1. Soak Leave And Overnight Apple A Add Bowl, To Put All Grated Into Cherries Except Rum, The Fruit And

  2. Little Beat A Curdle Mixture Gently Of To Flour And The The Butter Fluffy And If Until In Beat Eggs Add Begins Sugar The Light

  3. Stir Mixture Spices Into This Flour The And Mix The With

  4. Nuts Grated Soaked And Apple Fruit, Zest, The The Cherries, In Stir In Sherry Fold

  5. Of Table A Degrees Rectangle 140 Box Carboard Will Strip Hours That Square Inch Line Than Parchment Around Around The Tin The Tray With For With Tie A Four At Degrees 8 Securely Brown Hour Piece The And Sides On 3 100 An Of It For Further Printed) (rather A At A Cut The Of Bake And 1 Salt Then Of Fit Tin Cardboard Sit Of Twine

  6. Icing Alcohol Tin Place Every Usually Tinfoil Cool Cake In In So Or Parchment Until Is In I In To Allow With Days Until To The A Wrap Cool The Ice Day Dark It It First Want Store You And Once It Ten Cool It Then Sprinkle

Ingredients

  • 220g Peel Mixed

  • 280g Raisins Golden

  • Sultanas Golden 270g

  • 350g Currants

  • Rum Dark 250mls

  • Muscovado Sugar 220g

  • Soft 220g Butter

  • Eggs, 5 Lightly Medium Beaten

  • 1 Tsp Cinnamon Ground

  • 2 Mixed Spice Tsp Cake

  • Nutmeg 1 Tsp

  • 1 Tsp Ginger Ground

  • 275g Plain Sieved Flour,

  • 180g Chopped Syrup The Strained From Amarena Washed, Cherries And

  • 3 Oranges Zest

  • Mixed Nuts, Finely Pecan Chopped 120g

  • Grated Sized Cored, And Apples, Medium 2 Cooking Peeled

  • Glass Of Sherry ½

Method

  1. To Overnight Bowl, Soak Rum, Except Grated A And Leave And Fruit Apple Add Cherries Into The Put All

  2. The In Curdle And If Eggs Begins Mixture Add To Beat The Flour Fluffy Light A And Sugar Gently Little Until Butter Of Beat The

  3. The The Into And With This Mixture Spices Flour Stir Mix

  4. Apple In Fold Grated Fruit, Nuts The The Sherry Soaked Cherries, Zest, In And Stir

  5. Four Than The At 3 A Box (rather With Sit Cardboard Rectangle Brown Twine Table A Inch With 100 And And A For Square The Fit The Then Tin Line Further Cut Degrees Around Salt Of Of Tin Of For Piece Bake Of Strip Hour Parchment 1 Tray It Tie That Sides At Will 140 An Securely The Carboard A Printed) Of 8 Around Degrees Hours On

  6. Wrap In Then In To I Want The It Store Parchment Tinfoil Usually Every The A Alcohol To Place Allow With Cool In It Once Sprinkle Dark Days In And Ten Cool Until Is Icing Until Cake Cool You Ice So First Tin It Or It Day