Hi Bold Bakers! Make this traditional Irish Christmas Cake recipe and join in my family tradition this holiday season.
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Watch Gemma’s Favorite Irish Recipes: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3N53o3RIxHKigIvw1tWqSq5cZ9wQsZdR&si=19z9FPC1wjiw7ixU
Get the full written recipe (including all measurement conversions): https://www.biggerbolderbaking.com/irish-christmas-cake/
🥣INGREDIENTS🥄
* 3 cups (15 oz/426 g) raisins
* ⅓ cup (2 oz/58 g) candied peel
* 1 medium orange, zested
* 1 medium lemon, zested
* 1 cup (8 fl oz/225 ml) O’Driscoll’s Irish Whiskey (or apple juice/orange juice*)
* 1 ½ cups (8 oz/225 g) glace cherries
* 2 cups (10 oz/282 g) all-purpose flour
* 1 teaspoon mixed spice
* ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
* 1 ¼ cups (10 oz/300 g) butter, room temperature
* 1 ⅔ cups (13 oz/367 g) muscovado sugar (or dark brown sugar)
* 5 large eggs, room temperature
* ½ cup (2 ½ oz/71 g) chopped or sliced almonds
Aunty Rosaleen’s Traditional Irish Christmas Cake Recipe Chapters
0:00 – Irish baking 101
0:12 Today we are making a Traditional Irish Christmas Cake Recipe
0:19 Soaking the fruit for your Christmas Cake
1:09 Who is Aunty Rosaleen?
1:39 The BEST Irish Whiskey
2:35 How to prepare the cherries for your Christmas Cake
3:11 Dry ingredients
3:53 Creaming together the butter and sugar
4:38 Adding in the eggs
4:46 Adding the dry to the wet
4:57 Finishing the batter
6:00 Adding the batter to the pan
6:16 How to bake your Christmas Cake
6:36 Out of the oven
6:50 How to feed a Christmas Cake
7:20 How to store & feed a Christmas Cake
8:05 Serving up your Christmas Cake
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26 Comments
Hi Bold Bakers! I hope you make this Irish Christmas Cake part of your family tradition. Print the recipe here: https://www.biggerbolderbaking.com/irish-christmas-cake/. What are some of your favorite holiday baking traditions?
I live in England. We also feed our cakes for weeks. Soak the fruit in brandy before adding to cake. Nothing new here.
Reminds me of Christmas fruit cake.
Alas I can't make a traditional Christmas cake any more. Nobody likes it, but when I did I used to soak the dried fruit (raisins/currants/sultanas), nuts & diced cherries in a similar bowl to the footage) on the last Friday in Oct, till the following Monday. It's a holiday weekend here in Ireland the last Mon in Oct. On the Monday I would make the cake, but never "fed" it.😂. It was delicious. I can't eat dried fruit anymore.😢
I really loved this video! It was great how you were sharing your childhood and culture with the recipe.
Great recipe. I'd like to see a video on traditional Halloween foods in Ireland. Are there any besides Champ, Barm Brack, and Colcannon? Also, a video where you make Potato Farls and Boxty and explain how they are not the same thing. And a video where you make Champ and Colcannon and explain the diffences as well. Americans think of these as St. Patrick's Day foods and use the names interchangeably. It's annoying to me, and I'm American.
I love fruitcake and make it every couple of years. Instead of poking holes in the cake I always soak cheesecloth in the booze (I usually use brandy), wrap the cake in it and then wrap in wax paper and then foil wrap. Once the cheesecloth dries out I re-soak it and repeat until it no longer dries out because the cake has absorbed as much as it wants. I then freeze the cake and even months later that last cheesecloth soak is still damp.
Fruit cake in America tends to be terrible, I am always looking, for a good recipe.
Sorry, google ads forced me away. I'm sure you'll do fine
My grandmother used to sit at the table and cut her dried fruit. I remember sitting and watching her. She let me have a few pieces. She'd marinate hers too. Then lett them dry a bit before using the flour. After baking She'd soak the cakes in rum. One for you one for me. It was the only time i ever saw my grandmother soused. It was funny. The family said that we could keep the cake forever because it was mostly rum. We lost her recipe but yours looks similar. Thank you. She was irish. Our family were pirates too.
Looking divine! I 'm gonna make a black cake this christmas, a variation on this one. I have been marinating my fruits for 4 months now.
In the oven now 😊 I'm in SAfrica but DNA 95% Irish 🍀 ☘️
Does anybody know what stand mixer she's using thank you
Would you consider making a fruitcake and a yule log in a mug recipe?
Love this recipe. But I can't find the recipe for your cherries on your page.
This will be the first time i am going to bake a frut cake. So excited and definitely looking forward to baking this one. Will not be adding booze😊.
Hi Gemma… This recipe looks delicious 😋 Thank you for sharing❤!! Can I use this same recipe for Christmas cupcakes ??
Looks like pudding not cake
I just saw this recipe. Can I make and eat by the end of December 😢
I didn't keep adding the alcohol, only what was in the cake, don't like too much alcohol in cakes
Hi Gem can you give me a substitute for the booze please
The cake is now resting on a high shelf in the kitchen waiting for a couple more "feedings" before Christmas. Made the candied peel and glace cherries using your recipes (super easy) and it was totally worth it. Next year I'll start three months earlier rather than three weeks. Cheers🌲
🤗🤗🌹🌹
Can I use brandy
We must postpone Christmas, I haven't made your cake yet and it needs 3 months of whiskey feeding and maturing…
Another georgeous recipie, thank you 👍
Can we feed our cake with juice?