What’s Christmas without a perfect cake? If you’d like to deviate from the traditional Christmas cake this year, try the Christmas almond cake. This delicious cake is light, fluffy and very unlike your usual run-of-the-mill Christmas fruitcakes. It is also one of the easiest to prepare. It can be quiet a task convincing people to try it because most people harbor a misconception that the Christmas almond cake is a fruit cake. However once you try it, you are sure to get hooked. Here’s a recipe for an authentic Christmas almond cake.
Ingredients
3 cup - Cake Flour (sifted)
3 tsp - Baking Powder
½ tsp - Salt
¾ cup - Butter or shortening
1 ½ cup - Sugar
3 - Eggs
½ cup - Almonds (finely chopped)
½ cup - Raisins (finely cut)
1 cup - Milk
1 tsp - Vanilla
Lemon Butter Frosting
Things to decorate with
Directions
Sift flour once.
Add baking powder and salt to it and sift together thrice.
Cream butter thoroughly while adding sugar gradually until light and fluffy.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating thoroughly.
Add nuts and raisins and beat well.
Add flour, alternately with small amount of milk, beating after each addition until smooth.
Add vanilla.
Bake in two greased 9-inch layer pans at 375 Fahrenheit for 25 minutes.
Spread frosting between layers and on top and sides of cake.
Decorate top of cake with wreath of holly, maraschino cherries or red cinnamon candies can be used as berries and slices of angelica or citron can be used as leaves and stems.
Alternatively, decorate with poinsettias made of candied cherries. Slice cherries in rings, cut rings in half, and arrange to form petals of poinsettias.
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