Sig's Lighter Yuletide Cake
Sig's Lighter Yuletide Cake

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Sig's Lighter Yuletide Cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Sig's Lighter Yuletide Cake is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sig's lighter yuletide cake using 29 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Sig's Lighter Yuletide Cake:
  1. Take cake
  2. Get 225 grams butter softened plus extra for greasing
  3. Get 2 tbsp Brandy
  4. Get 1 pinch saffron about 1/4 strand
  5. Make ready 225 grams golden castor sugar
  6. Take 4 eggs
  7. Get 225 grams plain flour
  8. Get 50 grams ground almonds
  9. Take 1 tsp baking powder
  10. Make ready 300 grams each of raisins and sultanas
  11. Make ready 100 grams natural coloured glacé cherries
  12. Take 85 grams mixed peel
  13. Get 50 grams each,whole blanched almonds and hazelnuts or other nuts of preference,roughly chopped
  14. Prepare 50 grams walnut pieces,to soak, this can be repeated twice more
  15. Take 3 tbsp brandy extra
  16. Get 2 tbsp honey that is runny
  17. Make ready decoration
  18. Make ready 1 eggwhite
  19. Get 50 grams castor sugar
  20. Take 1 small bunch black grapes
  21. Make ready 2 small sprigs of holly
  22. Get 2 clementines
  23. Take 2 just ripe figs
  24. Get 2 kumquats, or if difficult to get hold of any small fruit or slices that you like to eat
  25. Take 4 cape gooseberries(physalis)
  26. Make ready 1 length 65 cm of cake ribbon
  27. Get frosting (no marzipan, no icing, as done on the finished bottom picture, my granddaughters effort from last year, I was so proud of her.)
  28. Get 2 egg whites, fresh
  29. Get 180 grams icing sugar/ powder sugar

Cream the butter and brown sugar until light. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well at each addition. Are you sure you want to remove The festive Yuletide fruit cake from your list? Find Yuletide stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock collection.

Steps to make Sig's Lighter Yuletide Cake:
  1. Heat oven 160 C, double line deep 20 cm cake tin with baking parchment.Tie a few sheets of brown paper around the outside,level with parchment.Heat 2 tbls of brandy in small pan, infuse saffron for a few minutes whilst pan is off heat.Put the butter,sugar,eggs,flour,almonds,baking powder and a pinch of salt into s bowl mix mix until soft and creamy.Mix saffron brandy,fruit and nuts and mix into the batter.
  2. Spoon the mixture into tin,make a slight dip in the middle.Bake for one and a half hours,cover loosely with foil,turn oven down to 140C and cook for one more hour or until skewer comes out clean.
  3. Leave to cool in tin,whilst still warm prod the cake all over with skewer,mix brandy and honey together and spoon over cake.Wrap up airtight and feed cake with more honey and brandy mixture as often as you like.This cake can be made up to 6 weeks in advance.
  4. Put a large bowl over a pan of simmering water,make sure the bottom of the bowl does not touch the water.Put the 2 eggwhites and icing sugar into bowl whisk for 5-7 minutes until you have a thick very glossy frosting,folding all mixture in as you go along.Spread over cake creating snow like effect.Half the other fruits and arrange on top of cake,fix ribbon around base.
  5. For decoration and frosting: lightly beat eggwhite.Spread out extrs fine /castor sugar on a baking sheet.Dip grapes and holly in eggwhite coat withsugarmake the frosting.
  6. The lighter (no marzipan, no iicing) decoration and frosting is best made on the day that you serve the cake. My grandmas this one.

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