Alcohol Free Christmas Cake

Alcohol Free Christmas Cake recipe is an easy Homemade Christmas fruit cake with dates and cherries, baked a few days ahead no alcohol.

Alcohol Free Christmas Cake

Make it a week before Christmas if you like. Dates sweeten and darken the batter. The tasty whole cherries pop in your mouth when eaten. This cake does not last until new year, therefore it is not necessary to preserve it with alcohol.

What is the traditional Christmas cake called?

The Scottish specialty is the traditional Christmas cake. “Whisky Dundee“. The cake originated in Dundee and is preserved with Scotch whiskey. It is a light and crumbly cake and light on fruit and candid peel, currents, raisins, sultanas and cherries.

What can I use instead of alcohol in a Christmas cake?

If you’re baking an alcohol-free Christmas cake you can use a few tablespoons of orange, cherry, cranberry or apple juice; something sweet to keep the moisture in the cake. You can also soak the fruit in tea if you prefer a less sweet flavour.

How do you keep the Christmas cake moist?

Wrap the cake in wax proof or baking parchment paper. Then wrap that in foil twice. Be careful to not let the foil touch the cake. Keep it in a cake tin or chill in the fridge. This is for cake with alcohol.

How long does the fruit cake last without alcohol?

Since the cake does not have alcohol to preserve it it will last at least a week. Covered with cling wrap or wax paper, stored in a cake tin. If you want to keep it longer then wrap it well in cling wrap sealed well and freeze it.

Ingredients.

Some images of the ingredients needed for this amazing easy Christmas cake. Some pitted soft dates and fruit cake mix, or raisins and currents. Lots of cherries for color and bite of sweetness in the cake. Also for decorating the top with.

The normal mix for cakes, are flour, baking soda, brown sugar and eggs and butter. (follow the recipe attached for the measurements.)

Dark Alcohol Free Christmas cake, no standing or preserving with alcohol. Tasty as it is.

How To.

Firstly the Boiling of the fruit, sugar, butter, dates and cherries in a large pot.(follow the recipe for the specific instructions)

Boiling the ingredients for 5 minutes with stirring the mixture gently. Without breaking the whole cherries, so that it does not stick to the pot, then leave to cool.

Once the mixture is boiled, then leave to cool either in a larger bowl or the large pot. (but the hot pot will take longer to cool)

Before you add the flour and eggs the mixture should be nice and cool.

Once the final ingredients are all mixed together. Add them in lined greased baking pans.

Bake the cake in the oven covered with brown paper or foil. As it will bake for a while and you do not need the cake to burn on the top.

Cover can be removed a half an hour before its finally baked. To give it the finish cooked browning touches of a baked fruit cake.

Poke the cake with a skewer or a clean knife to see if the cake is baked. It may take one and a half hours, therefore check before removing from the oven.

Decorate as you please, as this one was done very simply and used ingredients that was readily available. Small mini white meringues and desiccated coconut sprinkled on top. With of course my favorite whole red cherries.

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