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When you’re ready to cook the cake, pre-heat the oven to 140°C, Gas mark 1. Now all you do is sift the flour, salt and spices into a very large roomy mixing bowl then add the sugar, eggs, treacle (warm it a little first to make it easier) and butter and beat with an electric hand whisk until everything is smooth and fluffy.
Here is Delia’s most popular stand alone recipe: her famous Christmas cake. Fancy coating your Christmas cake with chocolate? Take a look at our boozy chocolate Christmas cake recipe.
You need to begin this cake the night before you want to bake it. All you do is weigh out the dried fruit, cherries and mixed peel, place it in a mixing bowl and mix in the brandy as evenly and thoroughly as possible. Cover the bowl with a clean tea cloth and leave the fruit aside to absorb the brandy for 12 hours. Next day prepare your cake tin.
nothing to do with your christmas cake, but your ginger cake, use fresh ginger it so enhances the flavor who needs dried ground ginger I have been making this Christmas cake for over 35 years, usually the biggest one possible as my family love it so much. Thank you.
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