Soak in the festivities of Christmas with these absolutely delicious, gluten-free cake. Packed with the goodness of dry fruits mixed with orange-lemon zest, apple and jaggery syrup, this Christmas cake is just too delectable to resist!
Ingredients Of Gluten-Free Christmas Cake
- 300 gms Christmas dry fruits (pre-soaked)
- 1/2 orange zest
- 1/2 lemon zest
- 200 ml jaggery syrup
- 150 almond flour
- 100 apple, grated
- 175 butter (softened)
- 4 medium eggs
How to Make Gluten-Free Christmas Cake
1. Preheat the oven to 140 degrees.2. Put the remaining ingredients except for the almond flour in a large bowl.
3. Beat with a hand-held electric mixer until well combined. Fold the almond flour well.
4. Grease a deep 23 cm round tin or 20 cm square cake tin with butter, line with a double layer of baking paper and grease the paper. Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin.
5. Level the top and cover with a disc of baking paper.
6. Bake for about 2 hours until firm to the touch and a skewer pushed into the middle comes out clean. Leave the cake to cool in the tin.
7.When the cake has cooled, remove the baking paper disc; pierce the top in several places with a skewer, then pour over a little brandy. Remove the cake from the tin but keep it in the baking paper.
8. Wrap with more baking paper, then wrap with foil. Then store in a cool place to mature.
9. Decorate the cake with glacé fruit, marzipan or ready-to-use icing.
