Christmas Cake Recipe Nigella. Added ginger powder and nutmeg and some roasted hazelnuts along to the topping, made a snowflake template and used it to make an icing snowflake on top, tied a red ribbon around the side. Nigella lawson does christmas recipes flawlessly.
(and then there's christmas pudding, which confuses, too.)christmas cake and fruitcake often refer to the same thing: The traditional british christmas cake is a rich, dense fruit cake made with dried fruit and treacle. It’s an expense to get a tin that can’t be used all year round, but it really is a beautifully christmassy creation, and a doddle to make.
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If you insert a cake tester into the middle of the cake it will still come out a little sticky. Nigella lawson shares her recipe for christmas cake, made with dried fruit, ground almonds, delicious chopped pecans and a good splash of bourbon. Put 1kg mixed dried fruit, the zest and juice of 1 orange and 1 lemon, 150ml brandy or other alcohol, 250g softened butter and 200g light, soft brown sugar in a large pan set over a medium heat. Fold in the chopped pecans.