calories per serving: 495

preparation time: 25 minutes

cooking time: 1 hour 40 minutes

Suitable for freezing after step 5

Christmas recipe ingredients:

oil for greasing
white chocolate, 125 g (4 oz)
milk chocolate, 125 g (4 oz)
plain chocolate, 375 g (13 oz)
softened butter, 175 g (6 oz)
caster sugar, 175 g (6 oz)
ground almonds, 175 g (6 oz)
eggs, 6 separated
breadcrumbs, fresh brown 75 g (3 oz)
cocoa powder, 45 ml (3 tbsp)
orange, grated rind & juice from 1
salt, pinch
double cream, 150 ml (5 fl oz)

Christmas recipe instructions:

Chop the milk and white chocolate into unequal pieces. Take an 8 inch (20.5 cm) diameter cake tin and grease and line. Melt plain chocolate (225 g, 8 oz) over hot water and allow to coll for a bit. Mix the sugar and butter until airy and add the orange rind, ornage juice, cocoa powder, breadcrumbs, egg yolks, ground almomds and the melted chocolate. Make soft peaks with the salt and egg whites and blend a quarter into the mixture from step 3. Mix what is left with the chopped chocolate from step 1. Place into the cake tin and bake at gas mark 4 (180 degrees centigrade, 350 F) for 1 hour 40 minutes. Allow to cool for about quarter of an hour before placing onto a wire rack. Melt the remaining plain chocolate (150 g, 5 oz) with the cream over a bowl of hot water and allow to thicken slightly. Cover the cake with this mixture, cool and store.

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calories per serving: 105

preparation time: 30 minutes

cooking time: 25 minutes

suitable for freezing

Christmas recipe ingredients:

butter, 125 g (4 oz)
white flour, plain 225 g (8 oz)
mincemeat, 225 g (8 oz)
egg, lightly beaten 1
caster sugar
cream

Fruity Mincemeat:

lemon, grated rind and juice from 1
raisins/sultanas, 125 g (4 oz) of each
currants & dried peaches (or apricots, pears),125 g (4 oz) of each
mixed spice, 1.25 ml (quarter tsp)
sugar, light brown 100 g (3.5 oz)
brandy, 100 ml (4 fl oz)
eating apples, 200 g (7 oz)
white grapes, seedless 125 g (4 oz)

Christmas recipe instructions:

Mincemeat: Combine the brandy, brown sugar, mixed spice, dried fruit, and lemon rind with juice. Add cubed apple and halved grapes. Mix and keep at about 5 degrees centigrade for a minimum of a day. Make a dough with water (60 ml, 4 tbsp), the butter and flour. Knead until smooth and roll out a layer of thin pastry. Cut out 48 round pieces of pastry using a cutter (5.5 cm, 2.25 inch). Place some mincemeat in the middle of each and seal with another round piece wetting the edges before closing. Pierce the top for ventilation purposes. Bake the mincepies until set but not browned at gas mark 6 (200 degrees centigrade, 400 F). When ready, remove from the oven, brush with beaten egg white and sprinkle withg caster sugar. Bake again for an additional 10 minutes or until well browned. Serve warm with cream.

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