Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, sig's lighter yuletide cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Sig's Lighter Yuletide Cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Sig's Lighter Yuletide Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must 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 that.
The ingredients needed to make Sig's Lighter Yuletide Cake:
- Make ready cake
- Make ready 225 grams butter softened plus extra for greasing
- Get 2 tbsp Brandy
- Prepare 1 pinch saffron about 1/4 strand
- Prepare 225 grams golden castor sugar
- Get 4 eggs
- Get 225 grams plain flour
- Take 50 grams ground almonds
- Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 300 grams each of raisins and sultanas
- Make ready 100 grams natural coloured glacé cherries
- Make ready 85 grams mixed peel
- Get 50 grams each,whole blanched almonds and hazelnuts or other nuts of preference,roughly chopped
- Prepare 50 grams walnut pieces,to soak, this can be repeated twice more
- Get 3 tbsp brandy extra
- Take 2 tbsp honey that is runny
- Prepare decoration
- Get 1 eggwhite
- Get 50 grams castor sugar
- Prepare 1 small bunch black grapes
- Get 2 small sprigs of holly
- Take 2 clementines
- Take 2 just ripe figs
- Get 2 kumquats, or if difficult to get hold of any small fruit or slices that you like to eat
- Get 4 cape gooseberries(physalis)
- Take 1 length 65 cm of cake ribbon
- Prepare frosting (no marzipan, no icing, as done on the finished bottom picture, my granddaughters effort from last year, I was so proud of her.)
- Prepare 2 egg whites, fresh
- Take 180 grams icing sugar/ powder sugar
Steps to make Sig's Lighter Yuletide Cake:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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