Groovy Kids Christmas Cake Recipe

INGREDIENTS:
12 oz plain flour
1 tsp. mixed spice
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt
8 oz butter
8 oz sugar
4 oz fruit peel
4 oz cherries
2 lb dried fruit
4 oz blanched almonds
4 eggs
4 tbsp orange juice (instead of alcohol)
1 finely grated lemon zest
1 tbsp golden syrup
small paper patty cakes

Icing:

Melted White Cooking Chocolate
Green and Red snakes

METHOD:

• Put the flour through a sieve
• Mix the fruit peel, cherries, fruit, chopped almonds and lemon zest
• In a bowl, whisk the eggs and orange juice together
• Cream the butter, sugar and golden syrup until soft
• Add the flour and egg mixtures alternately to the butter mixture
• Stir in the fruit mixture
• Roll a mini cake a bit larger than a malteser - or big enough to sit comfortably in the small paper patty cake holder
• Place paper patty cake holders containing the mini christmas cakes in a lamington tin or similar
• Place tin in the middle of a hot oven and bake for a total of 3.5 hours as follows: high for the first 1.5 hours and then turn down to medium for the remainder of the cooking time
• When cakes are cooked, cool for 30 minutes before storing in an airtight container then decorating

Decorating:

We decorated our Kids Cristmas Cakes by covering with melted white cooking chocolate (1 pkt). We then used pieces of pre-cut green and red snakes to decorate like a mistletoe.

If you're short on time, you can use a ready-made Xmas cake. Break it up into a bowl and add some orange juice - enough to moisten the cake so you can roll it into mini cakes and place in mini patties (as per our photo).

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