If anybody reads the EasyFood Magazine you will know that they provide brilliant recipes and creative ideas to jazz up your dinner table! They are great for presenting recipes that reflect the time of year also, we really like this Christmas Ring Cake that they have on their website and so we thought we would share it with everyone here. Happy Baking!
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Ingredients
Fruit
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Ingredients
Fruit
- 225g raisins
- 175g ready dried apricots, finely chopped
- 175g chopped blanched almonds or walnuts
- 100g carton mixed peel
- 200g cartons glacé cherries chopped
- ½ orange, grated rind
- 2tbsp apple juice or brandy
Cake
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- 150g Tritamyl gluten-free flour
- 1tsp ground cinnamon
- 150g butter
- 110g brown sugar
- 3 medium eggs
- 1tsp vanilla essence
- 1-2tbsp apple juice or brandy
Topping
- 2-3tbsp melted apricot jam
- 1 x 2 tub glacé cherries, green and red
- 1 x 1 handful whole walnut
- 1 x 1 handful whole almond
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Method
- Put all the ingredients for the fruit mixture into a large bowl, mix and leave to stand overnight.
- Preheat the oven to 180C/gas mark 4. Grease and line a 22cm ring tin. Then prepare the cake mix. Sieve the gluten-free flour and cinnamon into a bowl. In separate mixing bowl beat together the sugar and butter until soft and fluffy. Then beat in the eggs one at a time with the vanilla essence, then fold in the flour and cinnamon mixture. Stir in the brandy/apple juice and then mix in the fruit and nut mixture.
- Turn the mixture into the prepared tin. Place the tin in the oven for one and a half hours to two hours. Once baked, allow the cake to cool in the tin on a wire tray. Dribble a little whiskey over the top.
- To decorate, brush the cake with melted apricot jam. Arrange alternative rows of red and green cherries, interspersed with rows of walnuts, whole almonds and thin slices of crystallised ginger. Then brush with apricot glaze, made by heating apricot jam with a little water until syrupy. Serve the cake sliced into small wedges.
Enjoy!
Courtesy Delicious
