White Christmas Cake
- Paul Hollywood
- Nov 19, 2019
- 2 min read
This cake is an excellent alternative to a classic, Christmas Cake.
It's still rich & fruity but a little lighter with lift of citrus & a hint of vanilla & almonds.
Makes: 20 Prep: 45 minutes Bake: 20 minutes
Ingredients
- 285g plain flour
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp ground all spice
- 225g caster sugar
- 5 large eggs
- zest of 1 orange
- zest of 1 lemon
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp almond extract
- 2 tbsp brandy
- 225g chopped walnuts
- 110g chopped pecans
- 225g glacé pineapple
- 225g chopped mixed peel
- 110g chopped candied angelica
- 2 tbsp apricot jam
- 500g marzipan
- 110g unsalted butter
- 450g icing sugar
- 5 tbsp brandy
Method
1. Heat your oven to 150°C. Line the base & sides of a 23cm round deep cake tin with double thickness of baking parchment, cutting it so it stands a good 5cm proud of the top of the tin.
2. Sift the flour, salt, baking powder & allspice together into a bowl & set aside.
3. In a large bowl beat the butter until light & fluffy. Add the sugar & beat until smooth & light. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, adding 1 tbsp of flour with each to prevent curdling. Beat in the orange & lemon zest, vanilla and almond extract & brandy.
4. Using a large metal spoon, fold in the remaining flour mix, the nuts, glacé fruit, peel & angelica, until thoroughly combined. Spoon into the prepared tin & smooth the surface.
5. Bake for 2¼ - 2¾ hours, until a skewer inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean. Leave to cool for 10 minutes then transfer to a wire rack.
6. When your cake is completely cool, warm the jam with a splash of water then sieve & brush all over the cake.
7. Roll out 300g of the marzipan to a large circle, 4mm thick. Using the cake tin as a guide, cut a round of marzipan to fit the top of the cake & position it. Roll out the remaining with the trimmings & cut 2 long strips to fit the sides of the cake. Position these then smooth the marzipan & mould the edges together.
8. To make the icing, beat the butter until smooth & creamy. Beat in ½ the icing sugar & stir in the brandy. Beat in the rest of the icing sugar until smooth. Spread evenly over the cake
Taken from Paul Hollywood’s How to Bake, published by Bloomsbury
Photograph © Peter Cassidy
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There seens to be some butter missing from the White Christmas cake recipe? It should appear in the ingredient list next to the caster sugar. I am very worried that I have not used the right amount as I used the same amount listed for the icing- in the absence of anything else.
I think the butter weight in a cake should possibly match the sugar weight? Can the editors of this recipe page look into this please and make the necessary correction?
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