A chocolaty Christmas cakes recipe

February 23rd, 2015

Christmas is special, and the Christmas parties make it more special. Every year you host a party and get confused about the eatable items you should offer your guests this year and on the top of the list there is the Christmas cake. No doubt there are a huge variety of Christmas cakes available in the market and you can easily buy a Christmas cake but there are two issues in that. One there is a huge chance that your budget might get disturbed with it especially if you are hosting a big  party and secondly the appreciation you will get by making a homemade cake is worth to put the effort in baking. So here i will tell you a great chocolate Christmas cake recipe and believe me all your guests will love it.

Actually the basic specialty if a Christmas cake is that is its full of fruits and nuts. And this amazing cake is not only a fruity delight but a great treat for chocolate lovers. This is the perfect cut-and-come again cake for any time of the year. It lasts for ages, but has the squidgy fabulousness of something so much less serviceable-sounding.  There are a bit more ingredients in it but I can say that a little more work will help you to get a lot of appreciation.

What you will need:

  • 1/3 cup grams prunes
  • 1/3 cup grams raisins
  • ½ cup of mix dry fruits Including almonds, walnuts, cashews
  • 1 tea spoons orange peel
  • 175 grams soft unsalted butter
  • 175 grams dark brown sugar
  • 175 ml runny honey
  • 125 ml of 3 table spoon coffee in milk
  • 2 – 3 oranges (juice and zest)
  • 4 tablespoons cocoa
  • 3 large eggs (beaten)
  • 150 grams plain flour
  • 75 grams ground almonds
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

 Decoration:

  • 400 ml whipping cream
  • 1cups Sugar
  • Sugar soaked Cherries on tin
  • few drops Vanilla extract

How to do it:

  • In a large bowl mix all the fruits and nuts and put a side
  • Pre heat the oven at 350 F.
  • Take unsalted butter and add brown sugar in it and beat until light and fluffy. Now add honey, coffee milk, oranges zest and peel and beat until smooth.
  • In another bowl beat eggs until light and fluffy. Now mix the eggs with butter mixture and slowly add flour and cocoa and fold. Also add almond powder, baking powder and baking soda at this stage. When the mixture is smooth enough add the fruit and nits to it and mix well.
  • Now pour the mixture in in a 10 x 4 inch round pan.
  • Bake it for 25-30 minutes or until the toothpick comes dry out.

Let the cake cool naturally by placing it on a wire rack.

Decorate it with sugar soaked cherries and whipped cream. For whipped cream, whip the refrigerated cream with caster sugar and vanilla extract for 10 minutes

MORE CAKES ON THIS CHRISTMAS.

February 2nd, 2015

Christmas is around the corner once again, and great celebrations are being made. People from all over the world make preparations for the eve of Christmas. Some go for visits to different places others arrange get together at homes and cook sumptuous meals to delight their festivities. Moreover, buying gifts and decorating homes, are the most important part of Christmas celebrations.

In this miraculous dispensation of the fullness of time, the opportunities to love and give of ourselves are limitless. Along with that, these opportunities if not utilised in time are perishable too. Therefore, the Christmas and many such events are a great way of making our time the most memorable, the way one wants it to be. One must make a pledge to oneself to gladden the hearts without any wish for return, to be kind in words and actions, deeds be performed those are needed, and to save the souls from perishing into the agony and traps of mirages.

Where there are Christmas celebrations at its peak, online retailers are no less from any one in offering their baking skills to its fullest. One may avail the facility of Christmas cakes online UK, to make their celebrations more sweet and chunky. There was a time when this entire cake making was a hectic duty of the housewives, and cooks at home. A lengthy process was involved in cake making at home. Grocery shopping, careful, and selective buying of the cake making ingredients. Whipping the batter and baking it later, keeping specific check of temperature sensitivity for the perfect texture of cake. Cake icing and making a suitable sponge, was all not a job of a plain cook. So the online retailers offer their master skills to save you from tough job and making your celebrations worthy of joy.

One may choose different types of cakes, from the options available. Varieties of coloured cream cakes are made for enticing the sight of the buyers. Along with that, keeping in view the significance of the event cakes are made, themed along Christmas Eve. Cakes decorated with icing, by making Christmas tree, snowflakes, stars, penguins and many more of such Christmas relevant themes. Pure white cakes, iced with cream are a speciality, for complementing the cake with Santa Claus red and white coloured clothes. In fact, Christmas celebrations have gone more fun and easy with the advent of readymade cakes, optimizing the needs of the customers. Presentation is one such aspect that is kept under due consideration while cake making, but its taste, is another chapter, that the special cake makers, make their most important job. Detailed care is taken while, making cake, to avoid any heaviness and oiliness in the cake.

After all the required preparations for the cake, its packaging and delivery are two of the most important tasks. Packaging requires box wrapping, and careful preservation to avoid any melting and sticking of the cake ingredients on its packaging. Raw wrapping can spoil the appearance of the cake, and it will definitely result in the spoiling of overall celebrations of the event. So special care is taken, while packing the cake. In time, delivery is another important feature for which Christmas cakes online UK is one of the best services. One may place an order and the services are going to manage everything in the best possible way, along with adding greeting cards and beautiful lines to make the gift the most special one for your loved ones. Time management, packaging, handling are all that one will look for in the online cake delivery services. The services make it their prime responsibility to deliver the best for their customers.