Christmas Cake

Fans of “The Great British Baking Show” volition consciousness assured that immoderate look by five-time prima baker Richard Burr has to beryllium a winner, and this Christmas Cake is his mentation of a existent vacation classic. For Americans, the four-hour baking clip volition look similar a misprint, but due to the fact that the barroom is baked successful parchment paper, it ends up steaming successful the oven. The effect is not dissimilar to a plum pudding, and the steadfast texture is good suited to soak up plentifulness of liquor. To marque it genuinely authentic, person everyone successful the household springiness the batter a disturbance for bully luck.

Many British fruitcake recipes usage earthy glacé cherries (made without nutrient coloring), which are hard to find successful the United States, truthful you tin opt for the dyed glacé cherries oregon substitute amarena cherries, which are often recovered successful Italian oregon gourmet nutrient stores.

Burr’s look calls for “mixed spice,” a accepted blend of allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, cloves, coriander and ginger recovered successful the U.K. You tin marque your ain version, oregon you tin substitute pumpkin pastry spice, which is similar. You'll request an 8-inch quadrate baking pan.

If you don’t privation to apical the barroom with marzipan and royal icing, Burr suggests utilizing toasted almonds, walnuts oregon pecans. Here, the tester utilized other marzipan and immoderate earthy nutrient coloring to marque marzipan trees.

The effect needs to soak successful liquor overnight. The wrapped marzipan tin beryllium refrigerated a time oregon 2 successful advance; fto it travel to country somesthesia earlier rolling. The plain baked barroom tin beryllium wrapped tightly successful aluminum foil and kept successful a cool, acheronian abstraction for up to respective weeks. The barroom tin beryllium assembled a time earlier it is served.

Adapted from “BIY: Bake It Yourself: A Manual for Everyday Baking,” by Richard Burr (Quadrille, 2015).

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 12)

• Calories

  640

• Fat

  23 g

• Saturated Fat

  11 g

• Carbohydrates

  105 g

• Sodium

  55 mg

• Cholesterol

  105 mg

• Protein

  8 g

• Fiber

  3 g

• Sugar

  81 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “BIY: Bake It Yourself: A Manual for Everyday Baking,” by Richard Burr (Quadrille, 2015).

Tested by Kristen Hartke.