Sherry & almond Christmas cake recipe | Good Food

Sherry & almond Christmas cake recipe | Good Food

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Packed with almonds, both ground and whole, and fed with raisiny PX sherry, this is an intensely fruity but not overly rich cake, from BBC Good Food.

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  • Wooden spoon
  • Spatula
  • Parchment paper
  • Brown paper
  • Butcher's twine
  • Plastic wrap
  • Aluminum foil

Ingredients

  • 1kg bag mixed dried fruit (not one with cherries)
  • zest and juice 2 large oranges
  • 150ml PX (Pedro Ximenez) sherry plus extra for feeding
  • 250g pack butter softened, plus extra for the tin
  • 250g light muscovado sugar
  • seeds scraped from 1 vanilla pod
  • 140g plain flour
  • 100g ground almond
  • 2 tsp mixed spice
  • 4 large eggs beaten
  • 140g whole almond

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