A festive Mincemeat Christmas Cake which is a great alternative to a more traditional fruit cake. A light sponge that still tastes like Christmas cake!
This cake is very easy to make and is a great way of using up any jars of mincemeat that you might have lying around, which is how I came to making it myself this week. Not everyone likes the more traditional Christmas cake, made using lots of dried fruit and candid peel. My Mincemeat Christmas Cake, is a much lighter cake and yet still contains the flavours of a more traditional version and is much quicker to make too.
The sponge contains a whole orange too. I have used this method before with my Whole Orange Chocolate Cake based on a Mary Berry recipe, where you boil an orange until soft, and then after removing any pips, you blitz the entire orange in a food processor and use it as the base of your cake. I figured that this would work well in a Christmas cake because oranges are very festive in flavour and works well with mincemeat too.
Once the cake was baked and cooled, I decorated it with some icing , flaked almonds and a sprig of holly toggle it amore festive look.
The cake was light and moist and delicious.
It tasted like Christmas; to me at least.
If you fancy trying this delicious cake yourself, the please find the recipe below.
- 115g butter
- 50g caster sugar
- 1 small orange with a thin skin
- 2 eggs
- 175g self raising flour
- 1 jar of mincemeat
- *Decoration*
- 175g icing sugar
- cold water
- flaked almonds
- Place the orange in a pan and cover with boiling water and boil for 30 minutes until the skin softens. Be careful not to allow the pan to run out of water
- Once softened remove from the pan and allow to cool until just warm to the touch
- Pre-heat your oven to 180oC / 160o C (fan) and grease and line a loose bottomed 8 inch round cake tin
- Slice the orange in half and remove the pips. Place the pipless orange into a processor or blender and blitz to make a chunky textured orange sauce.
- Then into your food processor add your butter and sugar and mix well to cream them until soft and pale
- Add the eggs and beat again
- Finally add the flour and mincemeat and fold until combined
- Pour in to your prepared ti and bake for 45-50 mins
- When your cake has cooled, remove from your tin
- Make your icing by adding small drops of cold water to the icing sugar -you want a nice thick paste
- Spread over your now cold cake
- Decorate with flaked almonds (optional)
I have made video showing how easy this cake is to make
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Oooh this looks delicious and far easier than a traditional Christmas cake. I’ve never thought of adding mincemeat to a cake!x
Oooh yay I love a good Christmas recipe! I am making our cake over the weekend and cannot wait to get a bit more festive! Thank you for sharing with #CookBlogShare x
Oh my boys would love this but I am rubbish and as I don’t like mincemeat I don’t bake anything with it. Maybe I should get them baking something like this x
This looks and sounds delicious Jenny and a lovely way of making a really Christmassy cake without needing to soak dried fruit. Love the idea of the whole orange in there, so tasty.
This sounds delicious and a great alternative to a traditional Christmas cake. I definitely love the sound of the whole orange in it!
Mincemeat in cake is a yummy idea…. and always good to have ways to use up leftovers x
I love how versatile mincemeat is and so easy to have a jar or two waiting in the cupboard. Great alternative to a traditional Christmas Cake (which I really need to get round to baking!) #BakeoftheWeek
great recipe for Xmas. good idea