Please Help - Lost recipe

[sallym]

I wonder if anyone can help please. What with everything that has been happening lately, I have forgotten to make my Xmas Cake. I usually follow Deliah's recipe, but I've gorn and lost it!!
If anyone could post the recipe ( just list of ings. and cooking temp and times please. I can remember the rest) or alternatively, another recipe that will be ok at such late notice. Am hoping to make today, so although I don't want to hurry any of you, HURRY UP

[bubblewrap]

Is this what you require?
The Classic Christmas Cake - recipe cost £8.55 from Delia Online

[sallym]

Thanks Bubblewrap, you have saved the day.
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[Two_Sheds]

Google is your friend

[bubblewrap]

Google has very rarely let me down it depends how you ask the question.

[Hilary B]

My son made Delia's Mincemeat cake one Christmas. He was 12, and it was his first major cooking project. (I don't count the 'ghastly green biscuits'. They tasted fine, but he did add half a bottle of green colouring stuff. That was when he was 8).

[sallym]

Cake and pudding merrily baking/steaming away. Thanks again.

[Alison]

Always used to do Delia's one until I was given an alternative recipe a few years ago and now always do this one:

INGREDIENTS:
250g sultanas
250g raisins
100g chopped dates
100g chopped apricots
100g quartered glace cherries
Juice and zest of 1 large orange
100ml apricot brandy or Grand Marnier
250g softened butter
250g dark muscovado sugar
4 beaten eggs
250g plain flour
1 tsp of ground mixed sweet spice, cinnamon and nutmeg
100g roasted hazelnuts, roughly chopped
1 tbsp black treacle
METHOD:
1. Place the sultans, raisins, dates, apricots, cherries, orange zest, juice and alcohol into a large saucepan and stir well. Bring to the boil; remove from the heat and leave to soak for 1 hour.
2. Place the butter and sugar into a large bowl and beat together until soft and creamy. Gradually add the eggs, beating well between each addition.
3. Add the flour, spices, hazelnuts, soaked fruit with all their juices and black treacle. Fold together.
4. Spoon the mixture into a lined 9” deep tin. Level the top. Tie a double layer of brown parchment paper or greaseproof paper around the outside of the cake tin. Bake at 150C, Gas 2 for 3 – 3 ¾ hours.