Christmas Cake Recipe

Mixing is More Important Than Baking in Christmas Cake Recipes

Have you ever taken the results of your family’s Christmas cake recipe out of the oven and been disappointed?  How can the same recipe created year after year always come out differently?  “Why didn’t my cake BAKE correctly?”

 

I’m here to tell you that the problem with most home baking mistakes isn’t in the BAKING, it’s in the MIXING of your cakes that most mistakes are made.

 

There are three goals in cake mixing, whether it’s A Christmas cake recipe, or any other baked good at any time of the year.

 

The first goal in cake mixing is to combine all the ingredients into a uniform batter.  This may seem obvious, but when you don’t scrape the mixing bowl during the process you can have streaks of dry flour in your batter.  If you haven’t incorporated eggs in the precise way to get the best emulsification, then how you BAKE the item really won’t matter.

 

The second goal is to trap as much air as possible.  This is most often overlooked by the home cake baker.  When creaming fat and sugar together, or whipping egg whites, the idea is to gather as much trapped air to give the cake a light texture and even crumb.  This is accomplished through concerted MIXING, not BAKING.

 

Lastly, ingredients for your birthday cake or Christmas cake recipe are mixed properly to develop the structure of the cake.  How wet and dry ingredients are added during mixing are the building blocks of a cake that is either sunken or bursting from the pan.

 

With those universal cake mixing goals in mind, now you can have ultimate power over any written cake instructions.  However, while all mixing methods have the same goal, they have different procedures depending on the ratio of ingredients.  This yields five basic types of cake.

 

All cakes are defined by their mixing methods, and broken into two categories; high-fat cakes and low-fat cakes.

 

High fat cakes are almost always mixed using the “creaming method”.   The best

cookies made from scratch

are also made with a creaming method.  This is the procedure where butter and sugar are creamed together to incorporate air.  Remember?  Trap Air?  Here’s where it happens, and why it’s important to use room-temperature ingredients.

 

A “Two-Stage Method” cake uses egg whites that have been whipped to soft peaks.  If you notice how the volume of egg whites increases dramatically when you whip them, you’re witnessing the incorporation of AIR into your batter.  A batter of egg yolks, oil, water, and seasonings are added to the whites, along with two stages of alternating flour and liquid, thus the two-stage method.

 

Low-Fat cakes most often use an egg foam for structure and texture of the cakes.   The first type of low-fat cake mixing method is a Sponge Cake.  Whipped yolks and whites give solid structure and flavor to a sponge cake, again proving that the mixing methods are most important if you want your Christmas cake recipe to be the best it can be.

 

Angel food cakes are absolutely fat-free because they’re made entirely of egg whites, sugar, flour, and flavorings.  But again, HOW you whip the egg whites for an angel food method will mean the difference between a dense, chewy cake, or light, fluffy Angel Food cake.

 

Chiffon Cakes are lower fat cakes that use the same method as angel food, but also include some egg yolks to give better structure, and use chemical leavening agents like baking powder or baking soda for extra rise.

 

Grandma’s Christmas cake recipe might make a comeback this year when you apply the basic mixing methods outlined here.  Once you identify HOW Grandma was mixing her cakes, you can assure that you’re meeting the general goals of cake mixing; combine ingredients, trap air, and develop structure.

 

Stop blaming your oven for those cakes not BAKING correctly.  You have no control over what happens to the cake once you shut the oven door.  However, you have a tremendous amount of control over the MIXING of your cakes, and it is the most important skill to have when creating your own Christmas cake recipe.

 

 

About the Author

Chef Todd Mohr is a classically trained chef, entrepreneur, cooking educator and founder of WebCookingClasses.  You can experience his unique approach to no-recipe cooking with his FREE online cooking classes.  The 7 minute class will change the way you think about cooking forever.

 

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Fruitcake $27.02 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Fruitcake (or fruit cake) is a cake made with chopped candied fruit and/or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and (optionally) soaked in spirits. In the United Kingdom, certain rich versions may be iced and decorated. Fruitcakes are often served in celebration of weddings and Christmas. The earliest recipe from ancient Rome lists pomegranate seeds, pine nuts, and rai

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Kitchens 2012 Family Organiser Calendar with Recipes $8 Keep your family organised in 2012 with this stylish kitchen themed calendar. Each month features a seasonal recipe, including: January – leek and potato soup February – American style pancakes March – Lancashire hotpot April – pineapple upside down cake May – frittata muffins June – gooseberry fool July – beer marinated chicken August – baked nectarines September – tarte tatin October – spiced pumpkin soup November – honey roasted root vegetables December – crumble topped mince pies Just like our other family organisers, each month has 4 columns so that several events can be recorded each day. This calendar also includes reminder stickers and a handy pen.

Perfect Party Cakes Made Easy: Over 70 Fun-to-Decorate Cakes for All Occasions $17.95 For children’s birthdays or any celebration, there’s a novelty cake recipe here that’s perfect for the party! Choose from among 65 different themes, including a Teddy Bear, Pony, or Rag Doll. For teens, how about a Computer Game, Sunbather, or Party Animal? And for family and friends, choose from Lovebirds, Golf Course, or Football Fan. What makes each cake a novelty is the clever use of both edible and non-edible decorations, all readily available. The Fairy-tale Castle uses ice-cream cones for turrets; Christmas-theme cakes feature candy canes and plastic toys. Recipes for the best basic cakes to bake come with instructions on modeling sugar paste and preparing icings of all kinds. Templates are available for more elaborate decorative details, while special simplified instructions for kids invite the whole family to help.

Recipes of a Lifetime Vol. 1 $2.99 This is a collection of dessert related recipes collected and compiled over the last forty-five years from various sources. These include my Mother, Aunt, Mother-in-Law, friends, magazines and newspapers. The Coca Cola and rum cakes were the favorites of my Mother’s. My Aunt’s specialty was the apricot nectar cake and chess pie. My Mother-in-Law’s favorite was the jam cake that she always made at Christmas. My favorite is the mandarin orange cake.This is the first of a planned series of recipe books. Future volumes include recipes for appetizers, beverages, breads, breakfast, casseroles, Italian, meats, Mexican, quiche, salads, sauces, seafood, soups, and vegetables. Also look for another volume of desserts dedicated to pies, frosting and miscellaneous desserts.

Sweet Sicily: The Story of an Island and Her Pastries $35 There’s nothing subtle about Sicily.From the towering cake known as the Triumph of Gluttony to the pert cherry-topped pastries called Virgin’s Breasts to puckery, palate-tingling ices made from the island’s luscious lemons and tangerines, Sicily is known for its audacious — and delicious — desserts. Pastry chef and food stylist Victoria Granof has traveled throughout Sicily learning sweet secrets and local lore from the island’s pastry chefs and home bakers, and the result is Sweet Sicily, a lushly photographed exploration of authentic Sicilian pastry-making.For more than two thousand years, Sicily has been coveted for its fertile land and unique location in the Mediterranean. The Greeks, Romans, Normans, Austrians, French, Bourbons, and Saracens have all landed on its shores, and in turn left their imprints on its food. Granof’s magical tour takes us to Modica, where Franco and Pierpaolo Ruta of the Antica Dolceria Bonajuto create chocolate pastries using a five-hundred-year-old recipe that originated with the island’s Bourbon conquerors, and to the Baroque town of Noto, where master pastry chef Corrado uses jasmine blossoms planted by Saracens more than a thousand years ago to flavor his jasmine gelato. Granof goes on a quest to find the most authentic ingredients and recipes, including delectable homemade ricotta made from the milk of sheep that graze on fragrant herbs and pistachios that grow in the shadow of Mount Etna, the island’s still active volcano.In Sicily, every holiday and festival has its proper sweet accompaniment: marzipan lambs at Easter, honeyed pastry fritters at Christmas, crunchy, clove-scented cookies called “bones of thedead” for All Soul’s Day. Granof explores these customs and festivals, gathering heirloom recipes, along with local anecdotes and advice. In addition to sweets that are already familiar to Americans, such as cannoli, cassata, and lemon ice, she introduces us to dozens of

The Epiphany Surprise Christmas Cake Story Kit $18.85 New – This charming read-aloud story of one family’s Christmas “revelation” will inspire kids to create their own beautiful “surprises inside” Epiphany Cake for an “enlightening” home or classroom New Tradition! [Recipe and ideas for "tokens" and meanings included.] Bet you have an epiphany of your own this Christmas!

The Epiphany Surprise Christmas Cake Story Kit $22.95 New – This charming read-aloud story of one family’s Christmas “revelation” will inspire kids to create their own beautiful “surprises inside” Epiphany Cake for an “enlightening” home or classroom New Tradition! [Recipe and ideas for "tokens" and meanings included.] Bet you have an epiphany of your own this Christmas!

The Epiphany Surprise Christmas Cake Story Kit $17.14 Used – This charming read-aloud story of one family’s Christmas “revelation” will inspire kids to create their own beautiful “surprises inside” Epiphany Cake for an “enlightening” home or classroom New Tradition! [Recipe and ideas for "tokens" and meanings included.] Bet you have an epiphany of your own this Christmas!

The National Trust Book of Christmas and Festive Day Recipes $10.99 Used – In this festive book the author travels through the year offering recipe suggestions such as New Year Godcake, Lenten leek tart, Good Friday fish pie, strawberries in orange and brandy for Midsummer’s Eve, Michaelmas roast goose, Hallowe’en devil’s cake and sticky bonfire gingerbread.

The National Trust Book of Christmas and Festive Day Recipes $0.62 Used – In this festive book the author travels through the year offering recipe suggestions such as New Year Godcake, Lenten leek tart, Good Friday fish pie, strawberries in orange and brandy for Midsummer’s Eve, Michaelmas roast goose, Hallowe’en devil’s cake and sticky bonfire gingerbread.

The Shepherd and Other Christmas Stories $6.34 New – This collection features fom of the most requested Christmas stories for holiday listening: The Shepherd The Gift of the Magi The Cricket on the Hearth Yes, Virginia There is a Santa Claus Hoodoo McFiggin and Christmas Cake Recipe

The Shepherd and Other Christmas Stories $9.62 New – This collection features fom of the most requested Christmas stories for holiday listening: The Shepherd The Gift of the Magi The Cricket on the Hearth Yes, Virginia There is a Santa Claus Hoodoo McFiggin and Christmas Cake Recipe

The Shepherd and Other Christmas Stories $9.62 Used – This collection features fom of the most requested Christmas stories for holiday listening: The Shepherd The Gift of the Magi The Cricket on the Hearth Yes, Virginia There is a Santa Claus Hoodoo McFiggin and Christmas Cake Recipe

The Shepherd and Other Christmas Stories $6.34 Used – This collection features fom of the most requested Christmas stories for holiday listening: The Shepherd The Gift of the Magi The Cricket on the Hearth Yes, Virginia There is a Santa Claus Hoodoo McFiggin and Christmas Cake Recipe

The Silent Night Irish Hamper $279 A wonderful assortment of sweets and savouries, plenty of traditional favourites and soupcon of exotica – that’s the perfect recipe for entertaining. Accompany with red and white wines, champagne and some connoisseur coffee and pudding to follow.This Gift Includes :Bottle of Bernard Remy Carte Blanche ChampagneBottle of Terroir & Vignobles Merlot – SyrahBottle of Escale Sauvignon BlancBottle of Domaine Montplo RougeBottle of Marques d Requena BlancoHoneycomb Crisp Chocolates by Butlers 100gLuxury Christmas Mince Pies x 6Handmade Biscuit Selection in a Tin 350gExtra Virgin Olive Oil 250gWinterberry Shortbread by Dittys 200gCr??me Brulee by Lily O???Briens 125gCranberry Sauce by Irish Pantry Foods 227gIrish Breakfast Marmalade by Irish Pantry Foods 227gScrumptious Strawberry Preserve by Irish Pantry Foods 227gBrandy Butter by Irish Pantry Foods 180gWholegrain Mustard by Dalkey 200gTraditional Irish Whiskey Cake by Irish Pantry 400gGourmet Christmas Pudding by Irish Pantry Foods 450gHamlet Belgian Chocolate Assortment 125g RedDublin Morning Teabags in a Tin by Bewleys 125gRed Pepper Relish by Irish Pantry Foods 180gMint Cr??mes by Lily O???Briens 200gTriple Chocolate Chip Cookies by Irish Pantry Foods 150gItalian Style Roast & Ground Arabica Coffee by Clipper 227gLuxury Irish Oatcakes by Ditty???s 150gBaylough Smoked Cheese 200gCahill???s Ballyporeen Cheddar with Herbs 200gPresented in a Leatherette Trunk

The Successful Housekeeper $29.43 New – Excerpt from book: cups flour, with three teaspoonfuls of baking powder sifted in. Bake on three tins. Take whites of two eggs and make a frosting as for any other cake; add one teaspoonful vanilla and two-thirds cake of German sweet chocolate grated. Spread between layers but not on the top one. Take white of one egg to ice the top and sides. Do not frost the cake until cool. The same cake recipe may be used for cocoanut. Christmas Cake. Take five pounds of flour, mix with it a dessert-sp

The Successful Housekeeper $42.32 New – Excerpt from book: cups flour, with three teaspoonfuls of baking powder sifted in. Bake on three tins. Take whites of two eggs and make a frosting as for any other cake; add one teaspoonful vanilla and two-thirds cake of German sweet chocolate grated. Spread between layers but not on the top one. Take white of one egg to ice the top and sides. Do not frost the cake until cool. The same cake recipe may be used for cocoanut. Christmas Cake. Take five pounds of flour, mix with it a dessert-sp

The Tasha Tudor Cookbook $26.99 Tasha Tudor, beloved children’s book author and illustrator, has at last written her long-awaited cookbook. In words and the enchanting watercolors for which she is renowned, she shares the recipes she has gathered over a lifetime – some that have been passed down for generations and some that she created specially for her children and grandchildren. These traditional recipes recall an old-fashioned New England lifestyle and summon up Tasha Tudor’s own warm family memories, which she shares here with her readers. Tasha Tudor’s recipe collection includes summery picnic salads, hearty winter soups, and breakfast treats like Great-Grandmother Tudor’s Cornbread, Blueberry Coffee Cake, and Butterscotch Rolls. Her main dishes – Roast Chicken with tarragon and sage, vegetable-laden Beef Stew, and Salmon served with homegrown peas – are the prelude to her irresistibly rich desserts, including a luscious dark chocolate torte and English Toffee Bars. At Tasha Tudor’s Corgi Cottage, Christmas celebrations are the high point of the year, filled with the kind of food and wholesome fun that harks back to an earlier time. Her recipes bring family and friends together to make her well-known gingerbread Christmas tree ornaments (which have been displayed on the White House tree), and such seasonal favorites as thumb cookies and pulled taffy for wrapping as gifts or for putting in paper cornucopias to hang on the tree. All of these authentic, tried-and-true recipes are presented for the first time with some fifty original watercolor and pen-and-ink drawings in this beguiling keepsake kitchen companion.

The Williams-Sonoma Baking Book: Essential Recipes for Today’s Home Baker $18.83 Nothing evokes the comforts of home better than freshly baked treats straight from the oven. But too many home cooks believe they don’t have the time to bake except for the occasional special dessert. If you are one of them, this comprehensive baking collection, with nearly 400 recipes for everything from homespun favorites and bake-shop sweets to popular restaurant-style desserts, is guaranteed to change your mind. In this inspired book, you will find recipes that both fit into your busy schedule and suit nearly every occasion, from quick dessert for weeknight suppers to fancy cakes for holiday tables.Whether you are dreaming of buttery shortbread for an afternoon snack, a luscious berry pie for a midsummer get-together, a buche de Noel for a Christmas Day buffet, or a batch of rolls for Sunday supper, you will discover how to make it in these pages. The recipes are organized into eight comprehensive chapters: Cookies and Bars; Muffins and Quick Breads; Coffee Cakes, Scones, and Biscuits; Cakes and Tortes; Pies and Tarts; Yeasted Breads; Fruit Desserts; and Custards and Egg Dishes. Each chapter provides an array of flavor options to match the seasons and to accommodate a variety of tastes. Every recipe includes a photograph of the finished dish, so you can see how it will look, as well as photographs illustrating key baking task, ingredients, and/or equipment.Classics enjoyed by adults and kids alike are here, such as lemon bars, chocolate-studded cookies, blueberry muffins with brown-sugar topping, buttermilk biscuits, birthday cake with fudge frosting, pumpkin pie, and country-style cinnamon rolls. Detailed directions for baking chocolate cupcakes, bagels, and madeleines make these typical bakery specialties easy to prepare at home. A large selection of recipes for special occasions, such as almond-flecked chocolate cake with caramel sauce, pear torte with fresh ginger, and cherry cheesecake with a biscotti crust, provides plenty of ideas for