Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, christmas cake (no added sugar). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Place mixed fruit, apricots, undrained pineapple, orange juice and spice in a saucepan. No Added Sugar & Gluten Free Christmas Cake The other week Sukrin challenged me to make their no added sugar, dairy free and gluten free Christmas cake (with a hamper of their fabulous products!) and I gleefully agreed! This cake is bursting with goodness from the dried fruit, nuts and coconut flour and it is super tasty too. Christmas cake in the UK is a traditional fruit cake, with plenty of dried fruit, cherries, flaked almonds and citrus.
Christmas Cake (no added sugar) is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Christmas Cake (no added sugar) is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook christmas cake (no added sugar) using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake (no added sugar):
- Prepare 175 g dried apricots, diced
- Prepare 6 tbsp water
- Take 150 mls olive oil
- Take 5 large eggs
- Take 175 g plain wholewheat flour
- Make ready 2 tsp mixed spice
- Get 1 lemon, zest & juice
- Make ready 1 orange, zest & juice
- Take 175 g raisins
- Make ready 125 g dried mixed fruit
- Make ready 225 g currants
- Make ready 175 g sultanas
- Take 100 g dried cherries
- Get 40 g flaked almonds
There is no added sugar, butter or eggs, and sorghum flour is used in place of self raising white flour (though almond meal would work equally as well). Soft and moist - perfect with a digestive herbal tea after Christmas dinner. The cake also freezes well (as with it being sugar free does not keep quite as well as a traditional cake). You can also make this cake with gluten free flour for coeliacs.
Steps to make Christmas Cake (no added sugar):
- Add the diced apricots and the water to a pan and simmer gently until the apricots have absorbed the water and nice and soft.
- Allow the apricots to cool then blend in a food processor until finely minced (or mince with a sharp knife if you don’t have a food processor).
- Put the rest of the dried fruit into a large mixing bowl. Add the zest and juice of the lemon and orange, stir really well and let the fruit soak up the juices.
- In the largest mixing bowl you have, whisk together the oil and minced apricot puree until it is as well combined as you can get it. Whisk in the eggs until all of the ingredients are combined.
- Sift in the flour and spice, mix gently to combine all of the dry ingredients into the wet egg mixture.
- Stir in the rest of your ingredients.
- Pour into an 8 inch cake tin lined with parchment paper. Tie a strip of parchment paper around the outside of your tin with string.
- Bake at 150°C for 3 hours, or until a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
The cake also freezes well (as with it being sugar free does not keep quite as well as a traditional cake). You can also make this cake with gluten free flour for coeliacs. This delicious cake is Vegan, gluten-free; Free of dairy, eggs, yeast, soy, corn and white sugar. This no-added-sugar carrot cake uses dried fruit and ground almonds to sweeten. For the recipe, search for 'spiced carrot cake' in the recipe bar at the top of the page.
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