plum cake

Ingredients
1.Butter
2.brown sugar
3.mixed dried fruit
4.glace cherries
5. Dried cranberries
6.orange
7.lemon
8.cherry brandy

-now i know it's nowhere near christmas yet and normal in our house all talk of christmas is banned until at least december book november really is the right time to meet you christmas cake and i'm going to tell you why

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-packed with fruit and then fed with cherry brandy this cake is gonna be the most delicious christmas cake ever now we start with a large pan and to that we're going to add a hundred and seventy five grams or three quarters of a cope of on salted butter

-next day and goes to hundred and ten grams or packed called of light brown musk of auto show that than four hundred grams or two and two thirds of a cook of mix dried fruit to ensure grams or cook of glace cherries that been roughly chopped a hundred grams or cook of dried cranberries

-this este and juice of one orange

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-the zest of one lemon and about one hundred and twenty male a half a cup of cherry brandy

-he's on a medium heat until it comes to a gentle bubble and then we're going to allow that to simmer for about ten minutes just stare and occasionally

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-after that ten minutes is up for going to take the pontiff the hate believe it's a cool slightly and then will preheat the oven to one fifty c or three hundred f

-now we want to line and twenty cents me to caked it with a removable base so a couple of strips of fake the parchment here and not gonna lie on the sides of the tin needs to be higher than the sides of the tin so an inch and a half to two inches high than size and that will help to protect the cake and stop it from berlin in the oven and then to land the base of the tin

-we're going to call our circle

-like a large piece of baking parchment unfolded over one

-then again and finally for a third time

-and then place the point of the parchment in the center of the bacon tin and then we're going to cook following the line of the edge of the baking tin on unfolded and that should give you a perfect circle

-blind the sides of the bacon to and first and then place to settle to settle inside

-we're going to added eighty five grams or half a cup of ground almonds and then get after

-then i didn't three large eggs and stir together

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-i'm finally become ad in the dry ingredients we need two hundred grams or a cop and two thirds of plane all purpose flour half a teaspoon of baking powder teaspoon of price teaspoon of ground cinnamon and courtroom a teaspoon ground allspice

-spoon the mixture into the lined baking tin

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-that's go to in the oven for forty five minutes and then after forty five minutes we're going to turn the often down to a hundred and forty degrees c o two hundred and seventy five f and cook for a further hour to an hour and half until the top of the cake is a lovely dark golden brown and then inserted skill comes out clean

-if it looks at the top of the cake is starting to duck too much you can just play some foil on top

-once called cruel to remove the cake from the of and make ten to twelve holes all over it with a skewer

-while it's still warm we're gonna spoonful tablespoons of cherry brandy on top

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-leave the cake to cool in the tin then removed from the tin and rapid a double layer of baking parchment and then a layer of foil and place in an airtight container at room temperature

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-for the cake with two tablespoons of cherry brandy every week right up until a few days before you want to mars the pod and i the cake

-and that's what we make the cake in november so you can give a good few feedings for a deliciously moist cake with a rich flavor

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