How To Make A Great Delicious Gluten Free Dairy Free Christmas Cake

This tried and tested recipe for a delicious traditional rich fruit Christmas cake uses gluten free flour mix instead of wheat flour, and dairy free sunflower spread instead of butter. It tastes just as good!! You can make this cake any time during Advent / December - in fact, the earlier you make it, the better it gets!

800 g (1 lb 12 oz) dried fruits (450 g currants + 350 g sultanas / raisins)
50 g (2 oz) mixed peel
50 g (2 oz) glace cherries
3 Tbsp (45 ml) brandy
225 g (8 oz) dairy free sunflower spread
225 g (8 oz) soft brown unrefined cane sugar
4 eggs
225 g (8 oz) gluten free flour (eg. Doves Farm gluten and wheat free plain white flour mix)
3/4 tsp ground mixed spice (eg. cinnamon, nutmeg, coriander seed, caraway, ginger, cloves)
1/2 tsp salt
50 g (2 oz) chopped almonds
1 dsp (10 ml) black treacle

- Soak all the dried fruits in brandy (in a covered bowl) overnight.

- The next day, mix together the dairy free spread and sugar; then add and mix the eggs; then add and mix the gluten free flour, spices and salt; then add and mix the chopped almonds and black treacle. Then with a spoon, mix in the dried fruit which has been soaking in brandy.

- Preheat the oven to 140 ºC (275 ºF / Gas Mark 1). Line an 8 inch (20 cm) round cake tin with greaseproof paper, and spoon in the cake mixture, spreading it evenly with the back of a spoon. Cover the top with a double sheet of greaseproof paper (with a small hole cut in the middle), and tie a double sheet of brown wrapping paper around the outside of the tin.

- Bake on the lowest shelf of the oven for 4.5 - 5 hours (do not open the oven before 4 hours). The cake is cooked when a thin wooden skewer comes out of the middle of the cake clean.

- When it is cooked, take the cake out of the oven, and let it cool in its tin. When it is fairly cool, transfer to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.

- Transfer to a tin, and make several holes into the cake (not all the way through) using a thin wooden skewer. "Feed the cake" by pouring just a little brandy into these holes every couple of days for about 3 weeks.

- After 3 - 4 weeks, just before Christmas, marzipan and ice your cake, and enjoy!!

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[Suzanne42]

That looks really, really good! Can you make another video when it's time to eat it and the marzipan has been added?

[GetWellFromME]

@Suzanne42 For doing the marzipan and icing, or eating it?!

[VivaciaDreams]

i am DROOLING over the mix, is it just me that loves licking the bowl out lol

[GetWellFromME]

@VivaciaDreams No, I had to lick the bowl too!!

[hi771lrt]

I think you filmed all that in one day and had some pre-soaked dried fruit in fridge....that is what I think! :-) Another inspirational video, reminding us to take care of ourselves while trying to live a normal life! Thankyou for video.

[GetWellFromME]

@hi771lrt Thank you! Well if I did do that, then I also changed my shirt in between times! :p

[Suzanne42]

@GetWellFromME Well both, or course! The cake looks awesome. I failed making simple sugar cookies tonight.  Never was a good baker. :)

[hi771lrt]

Lol! So you did. I didn't notice! I just saw the jumper. ;-)