Christmas Cake
Serves: 8
Oven temp: 140C
Method:
Cream the butter and sugar until light.
Add one egg at a time to the sugar and butter and keep beating.
Add the flour and mixed spice.
Add the treacle and mix in.
Add the fruits, cherries and almonds together and stir into the mix.
Add 150ml of brandy, pouring it in slowly.
Take your 23cm cake tin and butter well, double line the tin bottom and sides with greaseproof paper.
Put half the cake mixture into the tin, arrange the orange peel on it, then put the other half of the cake mixture on top and bake in the oven at 140C for approx three and a half hours.
Also double layer the outside of the cake tin and tie with string
When the cake is cook, remove and leave to cool.
Remove the cake from the tin, wrap in greaseproof paper and store in a cake tin.
Every four days make little holes in the cake and feed in the brandy.
The week before Christmas remove from the greaseproof paper and roll on marzipan.
Then roll on the icing and spread over the marzipan
Decorate
