Mazie's Christmas Cake
Mazie's Christmas Cake
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Ingredients
For 10 people (
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- 1 cup Grace Hello Margarine
- 1.5 cups granulated sugar
- 1.5 teaspoons vanilla essence
- 1.5 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 0.25 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 4 large eggs
- 2.25 cups cake flour, sifted
- 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
- 0.5 cup cherries, drained and chopped
- 1 cup peanuts, finely chopped
- 0 FOR THE ICING:
- 1.5 cups icing sugar
- 0.5 cup whole milk
Directions
- Cream margarine, granulated sugar, vanilla essence, cinnamon powder and nutmeg with an electric mixer. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
- Combine flour with baking powder; gradually add 2 cups of the flour mixture to the creamed mixture.
- To remaining flour mixture, add cherries and 1/2 cup of the chopped peanuts and fold into the batter.
- Grease a 10 inch Bundt or Tube pan and sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup chopped peanuts.
- Scrape batter into the prepared pan and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C (350°F) for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of cake comes out clean.
- Cool in pan for about 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.
- Whisk icing sugar and milk in a small bowl until smooth. Spoon icing over cake.
- Decorate with peanuts and candied cherries.
Method Note: 1/2 - 1 cup cherries may be used if desired.
