Alcohol Free Christmas Cake recipe idea. A moist bake with fruit mix, dates and whole cherries in the cake that can be made any time.
Alcohol Free Christmas Cake
Alcohol Free Christmas Cake recipe idea. A moist bake with fruit mix, dates and whole cherries in the cake that can be made any time. 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. Gets eaten up quickly. Therefore it is not necessary to preserve it with alcohol. An Oven Bake recipe idea moistened with dates. Make a few as this non alcoholic Christmas fruit Cake or Dessert will be eaten up quickly. So delicious and tasty.
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 flavor. Using dates also sweetens and moistens the cake recipe and tastes delicious.
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
- dates
- cake mix of Raisins, currents
- whole glazed cherries
- butter
- flour
- brown sugar
- Bicarb of soda
- water or juices
- eggs
- flour
- baking powder
- cream of tartar
- Himalayan salt
For the amounts and instructions needed follow the recipe attached. Just love to use lots of cherries for color and bite of sweetness in the cake. Also needed for decorating the top with.
Dates pitted and chopped.
Fruit cake mix, raisins and currents.
Cherries.
The normal mix for cakes, are flour, baking soda, brown sugar and eggs and butter.
Flour, eggs and sugar.
Butter
Dark Alcohol Free Christmas cake, no standing or preserving with alcohol. Tasty as it is.
How To
Firstly the Boiling and simmer for short time, such as 5 minutes of the fruit, sugar, butter, dates and cherries and other ingredients in a large pot.
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. Or add the whole cherries at the end.
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 with a slit in the middle to let steam escape. 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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PrintAlcohol 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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