Name: Glossy Fruit and Walnut Christmas Cake
Yield: Serves 6-8
Ingredients: 8 oz (200 g) raisins; 3-4 tablespoons (3-4 x 15 ml spoon) rum or brandy; 8 oz (200 g) chopped walnuts; 6 oz (100 g) dried apricots - chopped into small pieces; ¾ lb (300 g) redcurrant jelly; preserving sugar or coffee sugar crystals; 2 large (size 4) beaten eggs; 2 oz (50 g) mixed peel; angelica; 1 tablespoon (15 ml spoon) black treacle dissolved in a tablespoon of warm milk; 6 oz (100 g) soft dark brown sugar; 4 oz (100 g) currants; 8 oz (200 g) self-raising flour; good pinch of salt; 4 oz (100 g) sultanas; glacé cherries; 6 oz (100 g) butter; ½ whole nutmeg - grated

Preparation info

Serves
6-8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Cooking for Christmas

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1978

About

If, like my family, you can easily do without marzipan and the hard icing covering of the Christmas cake, and find the cake itself rather too similar to the Christmas pudding, here is an alternative which is much less trouble and can look equally festive. It is a dark, moist cake, packed with fruit and nuts. Make it several weeks in advance if possible.