Scrumptious Gluten-free Christmas Cake
This gluten-free Christmas cake is just as delicious, moist, and festive as the classic version, with all the rich, spiced fruitiness you’d expect from a traditional bake.
Equipment
- Mixing Bowl
- Wooden Spoon
- Weighing scales
- Sharp Knife
- Chopping Board
- Cooling rack
- 23cm Round baking tin
Ingredients
- 2 cups gluten-free self-rising flour or gluten-free all-purpose flour plus baking powder and salt (250g )
- 1 1/4 cup superfine sugar (or regular granulated sugar) 250g
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened (250g / 2 sticks plus about 2 tbsp)
- 3/4 cup almond flour (ground almonds) 75g
- 1 cup canned pineapple chunks in juice (from a 200g can, including juice) In natrual juce
- 21/4 cups chopped dried apricots (350g)
- 3/4 cup whole blanched almonds (about 100g)
- 2 Finley grated lemon rinds Chopped
- 21/4 cups golden raisins or regular raisins (350g)
- 2 cups 2 cups candied cherries, halved (350g)
- 5 Large Eggs
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325°F, 160°C, Gas 3.
- Grease a 23cm deep round cake tin and line with a double layer of greased, greaseproof paper.
- Cut each cherry into quarters, rinse and drain. Drain and chop the pineapple, then dry both the cherries and pineapple on absorbent paper.
- Snip the apricots into small pieces. In a large mixing bowl, combine all the prepared fruit, nuts, sultanas, and the lemon rind. ( Hold back some of the cherries and whole almonds).
- Add all of the remaining ingredients and beat until smooth.
- Pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin and make sure it is level. Decorate with the blanched whole almonds and some halved cherries.
- Bake in the pre-heated oven for 2 1/4 hours until golden brown. Insert a skewer to test if it is cooked. You can loosely cover the cake with foil if it becomes too brown during cooking.
- Leave to cool in the cake tin for around 30 minutes and then completely cool on a wire rack.
- Decorate as you wish. You can lightly sift icing sugar over the top, or you can cover it with marzipan, then icing.
Nutrition
Calories: 617kcalCarbohydrates: 112gProtein: 9gFat: 19gSaturated Fat: 8gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 7gTrans Fat: 0.5gCholesterol: 82mgSodium: 33mgPotassium: 968mgFiber: 8gSugar: 80gVitamin A: 1974IUVitamin C: 4mgCalcium: 101mgIron: 3mg
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