Miracle Three-Ingredient Christmas Cake - Annabel Langbein – Recipes

Name: Miracle Three-Ingredient Christmas Cake - Annabel Langbein – Recipes
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Cuisine: European
Ingredients: 1 kg mixed dried fruit; 2 1/2 cups milk, or almond milk; 2 3/4 cups self-raising flour, or gluten-free self-raising flour; 1 tbsp sherry, rum or whiskey, to brush (optional); icing sugar, to dust (optional)

12 steps

Prep:5minCook:1h 15min

Updated at: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 05:37:44 GMT

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Ingredients

12 servings

1kgmixed dried fruit

2 ½ cupsmilk

or almond milk

2 ¾ cupsself-raising flour

or gluten-free self-raising flour

1 Tbspsherry

rum or whiskey, to brush, optional

icing sugar

to dust, optional

Instructions

Step 1

STEP 1

Step 2

Place dried fruit in a bowl, cover with milk and leave to soak overnight in the fridge.

Step 3

STEP 2

Step 4

The next day, preheat oven to 160°C and line a medium (23cm diameter) springform cake tin with baking paper.

Step 5

STEP 3

Step 6

Stir flour into fruit mixture until evenly combined and smooth into prepared tin.

Step 7

Bake until it is risen, set and golden and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean (check after about 1¼ hours and return to oven for a little longer if needed).

Step 8

Remove from oven and, while still hot, brush with sherry, rum or whisky, if using.

Step 9

Cool in the tin before turning out.

Step 10

Stored in an airtight container, it will keep for 3-4 weeks.

Step 11

STEP 4

Step 12

Just before serving, dust with icing sugar, using paper doily cut-outs or snowflake stencils to create festive patterns.