Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, sig's lighter yuletide cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Sig's Lighter Yuletide Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Sig's Lighter Yuletide Cake is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have sig's lighter yuletide cake using 29 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Sig's Lighter Yuletide Cake:

1. Prepare cake
2. Take 225 grams butter softened plus extra for greasing
3. Prepare 2 tbsp Brandy
4. Make ready 1 pinch saffron about 1/4 strand
5. Prepare 225 grams golden castor sugar
6. Prepare 4 eggs
7. Take 225 grams plain flour
8. Take 50 grams ground almonds
9. Get 1 tsp baking powder
10. Take 300 grams each of raisins and sultanas
11. Get 100 grams natural coloured glacé cherries
12. Take 85 grams mixed peel
13. Get 50 grams each,whole blanched almonds and hazelnuts or other nuts of preference,roughly chopped
14. Prepare 50 grams walnut pieces,to soak, this can be repeated twice more
15. Get 3 tbsp brandy extra
16. Prepare 2 tbsp honey that is runny
17. Get decoration
18. Get 1 eggwhite
19. Take 50 grams castor sugar
20. Get 1 small bunch black grapes
21. Get 2 small sprigs of holly
22. Take 2 clementines
23. Make ready 2 just ripe figs
24. Prepare 2 kumquats, or if difficult to get hold of any small fruit or slices that you like to eat
25. Prepare 4 cape gooseberries(physalis)
26. Prepare 1 length 65 cm of cake ribbon
27. Make ready frosting (no marzipan, no icing, as done on the finished bottom picture, my granddaughters effort from last year, I was so proud of her.)
28. Prepare 2 egg whites, fresh
29. Prepare 180 grams icing sugar/ powder sugar

Steps to make Sig's Lighter Yuletide Cake:

1. Heat oven 160 C, double line deep 20 cm cake tin with baking parchment.Tie a few sheets of brown paper around the outside,level with parchment.Heat 2 tbls of brandy in small pan, infuse saffron for a few minutes whilst pan is off heat.Put the butter,sugar,eggs,flour,almonds,baking powder and a pinch of salt into s bowl mix mix until soft and creamy.Mix saffron brandy,fruit and nuts and mix into the batter.
2. Spoon the mixture into tin,make a slight dip in the middle.Bake for one and a half hours,cover loosely with foil,turn oven down to 140C and cook for one more hour or until skewer comes out clean.
3. Leave to cool in tin,whilst still warm prod the cake all over with skewer,mix brandy and honey together and spoon over cake.Wrap up airtight and feed cake with more honey and brandy mixture as often as you like.This cake can be made up to 6 weeks in advance.
4. Put a large bowl over a pan of simmering water,make sure the bottom of the bowl does not touch the water.Put the 2 eggwhites and icing sugar into bowl whisk for 5-7 minutes until you have a thick very glossy frosting,folding all mixture in as you go along.Spread over cake creating snow like effect.Half the other fruits and arrange on top of cake,fix ribbon around base.
5. For decoration and frosting: lightly beat eggwhite.Spread out extrs fine /castor sugar on a baking sheet.Dip grapes and holly in eggwhite coat withsugarmake the frosting.
6. The lighter (no marzipan, no iicing) decoration and frosting is best made on the day that you serve the cake. My grandmas this one.

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