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.
- Prep Time: 15 min
- Cook Time: 75 min
- Total Time: 90 min
- Category: Cakes, desserts
- Method: Oven Baking
Ingredients
- 500 g mixed cake dried fruit
- 120 g butter
- 1 cup of brown sugar
- 1 Tbsp of Bicarb of soda
- 1 cup of water
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups of flour
- 2 Tbsp of baking powder
- Pinch of cream of tartar
- 250 g of whole cherries
- 250 g dates chopped
- 1 tsp of Himalayan salt
Instructions
- Bring to boil, the the mix fruit, butter sugar and water and bi carb of soda, then add the dates and lastly the cherries for 5 minutes. Stirring now and again. Do not break the whole cherries. Stir carefully.
- Leave to cool in an open bowl.
- Preheat oven to 180 Deg.C
- Grease cake pan and line with wax paper. then grease that.
- Mix the flour, salt and baking powder together and then mix them into the fruit mix. Then add the beaten eggs.
- Pour the mixture into the cake pan and cover with brown paper for the first half of the bake.(To prevent burning of the cake. ) Taking the cover off for the last half of the bake.
- Bake for about an hour and 15 minutes. Checking regularly when time is almost up.
- Check with a skewer to see if the cake is baked.
- Leave to cool.
- decorate as pleased.
Notes
This Christmas cake is super easy and quick to make one a day or two before Christmas. Totally alcohol free, and is moistened and sweetened with the dates included. A dark delicious Christmas cake. Absolutely a favorite cake for Christmas. Can make a roasting pan cake and slice and keep covered with wax wrap for a while, to eat for the Christmas season.
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