Sourdough Christmas Cake | Community Recipes | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson

Ingredients

• 150 grams sultanas (mix with raisins and currants)
• 150 grams raisins (or muscats)
• 150 grams currants
• 200 grams black cherries (dried)
• 100 grams candied orange peel
• 100 grams dried apricots
• 100 grams soft dried figs
• 100 grams nuts (of your choice - optional)
• 100 grams brandy (or whisky or liqueur of your choice)
• 250 grams plain flour (organic, or organic cake flour)
• 1½ teaspoons mixed spice
• ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon ground ginger (or cloves)
• 300 grams butter (organic)
• 300 grams rapadura sugar
• 100 grams dark brown muscovado sugar (or dark brown sugar or molasses sugar)
• ½ teaspoon sea salt
• 6 large eggs (organic)
• 500 grams sourdough
• water (mix with sourdough to make starters - ratio of 1:1 flour to water)
• 50 grams treacle