Mulled orange wine
Toast Christmas with this warming mulled orange wine, filled with festive fruit and spices. Perfect on cold winter nights, serve in mugs or heatproof glasses
Slow cooker Christmas cake
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook: -
- plus overnight soaking
- Easy
- Serves 18 - 20
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- 850g mixed fruit(or mix of raisins, sultanas and mixed peel)
- 100g glacé cherrieshalved
- 2 pieces stem gingerplus 1 tbsp syrup from the jar
- 75ml brandy, cherry brandy or Cointreau
- 1 orangezested and juiced
- 1 lemonzested and juiced
- 250g buttermelted, plus extra for the tin
- 175g light brown sugar
- 50g golden syrup
- 4 eggs
- 175g plain flour
- 75g ground almonds
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1½ tsp mixed spice
- ½ tsp ginger
- ¼ tsp ground cloves
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
Nutrition: Per serving (20)
- kcal352
- fat14g
- saturates7g
- carbs50g
- sugars39g
- fibre2g
- protein4g
- salt0.42g
Method
step 1
Put the mixed fruit, cherries, stem ginger and syrup, liqueur and the zest and juice of the lemon and orange in a bowl, then stir and leave to soak overnight.
step 2
Butter and line a 20cm, deep round cake tin with two layers of baking parchment. Heat the slow cooker on high for 30 mins. Meanwhile, combine the butter, sugar, golden syrup and eggs in a large bowl, then fold in the remaining ingredients, followed by the soaked dried fruit and any liquid. Cook on low for 9 hrs 30 mins-10 hrs until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. Slow cooker temperatures can vary, so check the cake after 5 hours, being sure not to keep the lid off for too long. The internal temperature should read around 92C. Leave to cool completely in the tin. Will keep for up to two months in a sealed cake tin.
