Super simple Christmas cake, sorted. We'll weigh and pack up all the dry ingredients. You pick them up, follow our recipe, 'feed' it plenty of booze 'til it's time to ice it - done! Makes 12-15 slices.
What's in the kit?
Everything's organic except for the cherries, mixed spice, mixed peel + sugar.
1kg mixed dried fruit
- 150g raisins (raisins, sunflower oil)
- 150g sultanas (sultanas, sunflower oil)
- 150g currants
- 150g glace cherries (cherries, glucose-fructose syrup, citric acid, natural colour (E163), preservative (sulphur dioxide))
- 150g cranberries (cranberries, cane sugar, sunflower oil)
- 150g chopped apricots (apricots, rice flour)
- 100g mixed peel (orange peel, lemon peel, glucose syrup, sulphur dioxide, potassium sorbate, citric acid)
200g light muscovado sugar
175g self-raising flour (wheat flour, raising agents, statutory nutrients)
100g ground almonds
100g flaked almonds
4 tbsp chia seeds
2 tsp mixed spice (cinnamon, cloves, coriander, pimento, ginger, nutmeg)
1 tsp cinnamon
What you'll need to add...
250g of coconut oil
150ml + 2 tbsp of brandy, sherry, whisky, rum or amaretto
Christmas cake kit - vegan option
Step 1
Put the dried fruit, the alcohol, the coconut oil and the sugar into a large pan over a medium heat.
Step 2
Bring to the boil, then lower the heat and simmer for 5 mins. Tip the fruit mixture into a bowl and leave to cool.
Step 3
Heat oven to 150C/130C fan/gas 2. Line a deep 20cm tin with baking parchment then wrap a double layer of paper (newspaper or other thick paper) around the outside – tie with some string to secure.
Step 4
Mix the chia seeds with 150ml tap water. Leave to sit for 5 mins until gel-like and thick.
Step 5
Add the flour, the ground and flaked almonds, spices and chia seed mix to the fruit mixture and stir well.
Step 6
Tip the mixture into your prepared tin and level the top with a spatula. Bake in the centre of the oven for around 2 hours.
Step 7
Remove the cake from the oven, pierce the top with a skewer and spoon over 2 tbsp of the alcohol. Leave the cake to cool completely in the tin.
Step 8
To store, peel off the baking parchment then wrap in more parchment paper and place in an airtight container. Feed the cake with 1-2 tbsp alcohol every two weeks until you ice it.