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Special Cakes
Recipes - Egg less Christmas Cake Recipe
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Special Occasion Cakes
Recipes
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Egg less Christmas Cake
Ingredients
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75g/1/2 cup
sultanas
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75g/1/2 cup
raisins
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75g/1/2 cup
currants
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75g/1/2 cup glace
cherries, halved
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50g/1/4 cup mixed
peel
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250ml/1 cup apple
juice
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25g/1/4 cup
toasted hazelnuts
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30ml/2 tbsp
pumpkin seeds
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2 pieces stem
ginger in syrup, chopped
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finely grated
rind of 1 lemon
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120ml/1/2 cup
milk
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50ml/1/4 cup
sunflower oil
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225g/2 cups whole
meal self-raising flour
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10ml/2 tsp mixed
spice
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45ml/3 tbsp
brandy or dark rum
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apricot jam, for
brushing
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glace fruits, to
decorate
Method:
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Soak the
sultanas, raisins, currants, cherries and mixed peel
in the apple juice overnight.
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Preheat the oven
to 150C/300F/Gas 2. Grease and line an 18cm/7in
square cake tin.
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Add the
hazelnuts, pumpkin seeds, ginger and lemon rind to
the fruit. Stir in the milk and oil. Sift the flour
and spice, then stir in with the brandy or rum.
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Spoon into the
cake tin and bake for about 1/ 1/2 hours, or until
the cake is golden brown and firm to the touch.
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Turn out and cool
on a wire rack. Brush with sieved apricot jam and
decorate with glace fruits.
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