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

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The ingredients needed to prepare Sig's Lighter Yuletide Cake:
  1. Provide cake
  2. You need 225 grams butter softened plus extra for greasing
  3. Provide 2 tbsp Brandy
  4. Take 1 pinch saffron about 1/4 strand
  5. Provide 225 grams golden castor sugar
  6. Use 4 eggs
  7. Use 225 grams plain flour
  8. Prepare 50 grams ground almonds
  9. Use 1 tsp baking powder
  10. Prepare 300 grams each of raisins and sultanas
  11. Use 100 grams natural coloured glacé cherries
  12. Get 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. You need 3 tbsp brandy extra
  16. You need 2 tbsp honey that is runny
  17. Use decoration
  18. Take 1 eggwhite
  19. Take 50 grams castor sugar
  20. Provide 1 small bunch black grapes
  21. You need 2 small sprigs of holly
  22. You need 2 clementines
  23. You need 2 just ripe figs
  24. Take 2 kumquats, or if difficult to get hold of any small fruit or slices that you like to eat
  25. Provide 4 cape gooseberries(physalis)
  26. Take 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. Use 180 grams icing sugar/ powder sugar
Instructions 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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