Best My Moms Light Christmas Cake Recipes
GRANDMA BETTIE'S LIGHT FRUIT CAKE
An easy light fruit cake that my mother made most years. Try substituting fruits that you like! To me it's the taste and smell of Christmas.
Provided by Leanne Mentz
Categories Desserts Fruit Dessert Recipes Cherry Dessert Recipes
Time P14DT1h45m
Yield 20
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Line two loaf pans with parchment paper.
- Coat cherries, raisins, almonds, and pineapple with 1 cup flour.
- Beat sugar, butter, and eggs together until creamy. Sift remaining flour with baking powder and salt. Add to butter mixture; stir in vanilla and almond extracts. Fold in the fruit and almond mixture. Spoon batter into the prepared pans and spread evenly.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cake comes out clean, 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Wrap cakes tightly and let age in a cool place for 2 to 4 weeks.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 429.2 calories, Carbohydrate 59.4 g, Cholesterol 92.4 mg, Fat 19.4 g, Fiber 1.6 g, Protein 6.3 g, SaturatedFat 9.5 g, Sodium 187.2 mg, Sugar 33.2 g
LIGHT FRUIT/CHRISTMAS CAKE
A lighter version of a rich dark fruit cake, ideal if you prefer lighter texture. Can be used as a celebration cake as it can still be iced. My Grandma's recipe with a twist, I add a good glug of Baily's Irish cream (at least 1 tablespoon, added to the eggs), very Moorish. Soak the dried fruits in the Brandy, 24 hours before you plan to make your cake, this way they take on the full flavour.
Provided by Enigma 1
Categories Dessert
Time 3h40m
Yield 1 large or 2 small, 8-10 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 18
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 150c/300f/gas 2. Grease a deep 8 inch round or 7 inch square tin. Line the base & sides with a double thickness of greaseproof paper & then grease this as well. Make sure the paper lining the sides are taller than the tin.
- Beat the eggs & Baily's together in a jug or bowl. Sift the flour, sugar & spices into the fruit mixture. Add the beaten egg mixture to the other ingredients. Beat together thoroughly with a wooden spoon for 2-3 minutes, until completely combined. DO NOT USE A FOOD PROCESSOR.
- Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin. Level with the back of a spoon.
- Make a slight indentation in the centre of the mixture so it will rise evenly.
- Bake in the centre of the oven 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 hours. Test the cake after 2 1/2 hours by inserting a clean metal skewer into the centre of the cake. If it is cooked, the skewer will come out clean & the centre will be firm when pressed lightly. If it is not cooked, return to the oven, but test at intervals. If the top is browning too quickly, place a disc of foil or brown paper over it to reduce burning.
- Once cooked, remove from the oven & allow to cool completely in the tin. Turn the cake out onto a wire wrack, leaving the lining paper on. Using a clean skewer, prick the top of the cake in places. Spoon over a dessert spoon of Brandy. Wrap the cake in foil or muslin, if available. Place in an airtight tin.
- Feed the cake with Brandy at intervals (once very two weeks) until required.
- If using as Christmas cake, the cake can be iced as usual, or you can decorate with just a dusting of icing sugar & ribbon.
LIGHT CHRISTMAS CAKE
This was one of my mothers favorite Christmas cakes. The recipe came from the "Edith Adams Christmas baking" flyer. She was a nutritionist for the Vancouver Province paper in the 40's & 50's
Provided by Bergy
Categories Dessert
Time 3h40m
Yield 2 Cakes
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Prepare fruit and wash raisins the day before.
- Cream butter and sugar.
- Add eggs one at a time.
- Beat until very light.
- Add sifted flour mixed with cardamom and baking powder.
- Add orange juice alternately with the flour a little at a time.
- Dredge fruit with a little extra flour and add to batter.
- Place in 2 loaf pans, lined with brown paper and greased on the inside.
- Bake in 250°F degrees oven 2-3 hours or until done.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 3230.6, Fat 166.8, SaturatedFat 67.7, Cholesterol 878.5, Sodium 1195.8, Carbohydrate 391.6, Fiber 32.8, Sugar 218.5, Protein 64.8
MY MOM'S LIGHT CHRISTMAS CAKE
I don't think I ever saws my Mom make a cake from a mix; she was a superb baker and all around cook, but lovingly remembered for her wonderful Christmas creations (let alone Easter!) amongst which is this rich and lovely Christmas Cake, that I can share with you. In attempting this one, you need remember that it was "always on a budget", so the cherries, peel, etc are not the ones packed in expensive syrupy fluid, but rather the cheaper "candied" ones, often bought in today's "Bulk Barn"... Mom never advocated drinking, but using white rum or brandy in place of the pineapple juice was not unusual, I just can't imagine her writing that out for dissemination in the family reunion cookbook I'm pulling this up from... Where "fruit" is mentioned as an ingredient, most often this meant currants, in semi-dried form, but I'll go out on a limb and suggest chopped dried apricots would work well, too...(remember, this is a "heritage" recipe, Mom was into her 20's in the Dirty Thirties, when you worked from the cheapest ingredients, and there weren't a lot of choices!)
Provided by John DOH
Categories Dessert
Time 3h25m
Yield 6-8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Mix cherries, peel, fruit and juice together well, and let stand for two days, stirring frequently.
- Add to remaining ingredients, mixing very thoroughly.
- Pour into bread pans, and bake three hours at 300 degrees.
- Enjoy some of the happiness we knew!
MY MUM'S CHRISTMAS CAKE
Instructions for cooking much quicker boiled fruit cake given below also. Mum used to make a boiled fruit cake often, sometimes with drained crushed pineapple in the mixture.
Provided by Ninna
Categories Dessert
Time 3h40m
Yield 1 Christmas cake
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- CHRISTMAS CAKE:.
- Beat sugar & butter very well; mix in all fruit (soaked in rum overnight), carb soda and spice.
- Add eggs and then fold in flour, then add water.
- Spoon mixture cake tin lined with 2 thicknesses each of brown and greased greaseproof paper; arrange extra almonds around top - brown paper on top of cake while it is cooking will stop it scorching.
- Cook 3 hrs 150degC (300degF), lower for fan forced - check cake with skewer or knife if it comes out clean it is cooked.
- BOILED FRUIT CAKE:
- Soak fruit with rum overnight.
- Then boil everything together, other than eggs and flour; now add eggs and fold in flour.
- Cook at 150oC (300degF), for 2 1/2 hours.
- NB: Check both types of cakes after 2 hours.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 6780.6, Fat 247.2, SaturatedFat 127.3, Cholesterol 1334, Sodium 3306.2, Carbohydrate 1049.2, Fiber 51.9, Sugar 687.2, Protein 98.9
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