Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, christmas cake with almonds. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook christmas cake with almonds using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake with Almonds:

1. Make ready plain flour
2. Prepare brown sugar
3. Make ready eggs
4. Get butter
5. Prepare raisins
6. Make ready sultanas
7. Make ready currants
8. Take chopped dates
9. Take ground cinnamon
10. Prepare ground nutmeg
11. Get blanched almonds
12. Prepare brandy
13. Get vanilla extract
14. Make ready bicarbonate soda

Instructions to make Christmas Cake with Almonds:

1. Preheat oven to 150ºC (300ºF).
2. Soak raisins, sultanas, currants, almonds, dates, brandy, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla in a bowl. Mix well and cover and leave overnight.
3. Cream butter and sugar in a bowl until light and creamy.
4. Add eggs one at a time beating well after each egg addition.
5. Drain soaked fruits and put aside.
6. Sift flour and bicarbonate soda over drained fruit mixture mixing well. Make sure all fruits are coated.
7. Once all fruits are coated put in creamed butter and sugar mixture and stir well.
8. Pour into prepared cake tin. Place almonds on top as decor and bake for 3 hours 10 minutes, or until it passes the skewer test (should come out clean).
9. Allow to cool in tin.

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