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- 200 g soft butter
- 200 g sugar
- 200 g yoghurt
- 3 large or 4 small eggs
- 50 g orange juice or half with brandy
- 300 g all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 vanilla
- 1 pinch of salt
- 2 tsp. gingerbread (spice mix)
- zest from one orange
- 50 g chopped fruit glaze
For the gingerbread spice mixture
- 1 3/4 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp. nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp. cloves
- 1/4 tsp. cardamom
- 1/4 tsp. ginger
For the gingerbread Christmas cake, all the ingredients should be at room temperature. Sift the flour with the baking powder.
Butter and flour bundt pan, preferably 21x10 cm. Preheat the oven to 170 ºC on the heating elements.
Mix the butter with the sugar in the mixer for 3-4΄ until the mixture has a creamy texture.
Add the eggs one by one to incorporate them in the mixture. Add the salt, vanilla and spices.
Mix the soda with the yogurt and add them to the mixture. Add the juice and the zest. Mix to incorporate all the ingredients.
Lower the mixer speed and add the flour with the baking powder.
Finally, add the glazed fruits and mix with a spoon.
Pour the Christmas cake mixture into the bundt pan.
Bake in a preheated oven at 170ºC on the heating elements, on the lower grill for 1 hour.
After the Christmas cake is baked, let it rest in the bundt pan for 15 minutes. Then unmold and after it cools completely, garnish it with icing or powdered sugar.
Secrets for a perfect gingerbread Christmas cake
We all love the taste of gingerbread because it 's like tasting Christmas in one bite.
-To make the gingerbread Christmas cake fluffy, from the moment the flour is added, mix it slowly. If you mix it strongly, instead of fluffy, it will become elastic and hard.
-The bundt should always be 3/4 full of cake mixture.
- When you measure the spices, the spoons should be sharp and not mountain.
-If you want to bake in air, set the oven to 160 ºC and bake on the middle grill.
- Do not take the cake out of the oven if we do not check if it was baked properly and stabilized in the center.
-Let the cake stand for 10 ′ in the form and then unmold it on a grill to dry.
- Alternatively, instead of icing, you can use a nugget of vanilla flavored sugar paste, which you have heated in a ben marie and while it is liquid, pour it over the cake.
-Glaze the gingerbread cake, after it has cooled completely.
-When you measure the tea spoons of spices, these needs to be flat and not overfilled.
- If you want to bake with fan-assisted, set the oven to 160ºC and bake on the middle grill.
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