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Sig’s Lighter Yuletide Cake Recipe
Sig’s Lighter Yuletide Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Sig’s Lighter Yuletide Cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have sig’s lighter yuletide cake using 29 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Sig’s Lighter Yuletide Cake:
- Take cake
- Make ready 225 grams butter softened plus extra for greasing
- Get 2 tbsp
- Prepare 1 pinch saffron about 1/4 strand
- Make ready 225 grams golden castor sugar
- Prepare 4 eggs
- Prepare 225 grams plain flour
- Take 50 grams ground almonds
- Prepare 1 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 300 grams each of raisins and sultanas
- Get 100 grams natural coloured glacé cherries
- Prepare 85 grams mixed peel
- Prepare 50 grams each,whole blanched almonds and hazelnuts or other nuts of preference,roughly chopped
- Make ready 50 grams walnut pieces,to soak, this can be repeated twice more
- Make ready 3 tbsp extra
- Get 2 tbsp honey that is runny
- Take decoration
- Make ready 1 eggwhite
- Take 50 grams castor sugar
- Make ready 1 small bunch black grapes
- Prepare 2 small sprigs of holly
- Take 2 clementines
- Prepare 2 just ripe figs
- Prepare 2 kumquats, or if difficult to get hold of any small fruit or slices that you like to eat
- Take 4 cape gooseberries(physalis)
- Make ready 1 length 65 cm of cake ribbon
- Get frosting (no marzipan, no icing, as done on the finished bottom picture, my granddaughters effort from last year, I was so proud of her.)
- Make ready 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 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 ,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 and honey together and spoon over cake.Wrap up airtight and feed cake with more honey and 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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