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Jenny's Christmas Cake

Jenny's Christmas Cake is a cakes recipe made with Wholewheat Flour, Baking Powder, Salt, Butter, and Demerera Sugar. Keep it handy for the next time you cook it.

Ingredients

• 10 oz
• 2 tsp
• 1/2 tsp
• 8 oz
• 8 oz

Method (preview)

1. 1

   Mix the fruit and alcohol together and leave to soak for 3 days minimum. Add cherries and nuts to mixture.

2. 2

   Mix flour, baking powder, spices and salt together.

3. 3

   Cream the butter, and sugar, when light and fluffy beat in molasses and then eggs one at a time.

4. 4

   Fold in half of the flour mixture followed by the fruit and alcohol mixture.

5. 5

   Then fold in the remainder of the flour.

6. 6

   Bake in lined tin wrapped in newspaper and secure tin with string.

7. 7

   Bake at Gas 3 for first two hours then reduce to Gas 2 for a further 90 minutes.

8. 8

   When cooked sprinkle cake with alcohol.

9. 9

   Keep wrapped in foil and every so often sprinkle with alcohol.