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Rich Christmas Cake
Rich Christmas Cake
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Rich Christmas Cake

24 hours 20 mins
3 hours 30 mins
Moderate
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This Christmas cake has the usual fruit and spice but also has the surprising addition of bananas that makes it a little different to the ordinary.

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  • Ingredients
  • Method

Ingredients

  • 1.5kg mixed dried fruit
  • 250g glace cherries, red and green mixed
  • 100g mixed peel
  • 1 Tbsp grated orange rind
  • 1 Tbsp grated lemon rind
  • ½ cup brandy or dark rum
  • 500g butter
  • 1 ½ cups Chelsea Dark Cane Sugar
  • 8 eggs
  • 2 bananas
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 4 cups flour
  • 1 cup self raising flour

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Dark Cane Sugar

Dark Cane Sugar

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Method

Place the mixed fruit, cherries, mixed peel, orange rind, lemon rind and brandy or rum in a large bowl and mix well. Cover and leave overnight.
Cream butter and sugar until it is light and fluffy, add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition, and then add the bananas and vanilla essence. Stir in the fruit mixture, mix well and add the flour. Mix until well combined.
Place in a deep 25cm cake tin, which had been lined with two layers of brown paper and one layer of grease proof paper. Bake at 150°C for approximately 3 and 1/2 hrs, or until a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
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