Christmas Bundt cake

AUTHOR
Janie Gentry
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 1
COOK TIME
90 mins
TOTAL TIME
90 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 18
  • 175 ml Milk
  • 30 g fresh yeast
  • 375 g Flour
  • 50 g sprinkled almonds
  • 1 package (100 g) mixed candied fruit
  • 1 TABLESPOON Rum
  • 175 g Sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Zesten of 1 untreated orange
  • 1 Star Anise
  • 1 stick of cinnamon
  • 200 g soft butter or margarine
  • 2 Eggs (size M)
  • 2 Egg yolk (size M)
  • 7-10 Tbsp grated rind of 1 untreated lemon
  • 1 TEASPOON Salt
  • 1 package Vanillin sugar
  • 75 g Icing sugar
  • 1 TABLESPOON Lemon juice
  • 7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour

Directions

  1. 1

    Warm milk in a pot lukewarm. Dissolve yeast in it. Put 175 g flour and milk into a mixing bowl and mix until smooth with a whisk. Cover the pre-dough and leave to rise in a warm place for about 30 minutes

  2. 2

    Roast almonds in a pan without fat while turning for 2-3 minutes, remove. Finely chop the candied fruit, mix with almonds and rum

  3. 3

    Bring 100 g sugar and 100 ml water to the boil in a saucepan. Boil the orange zest, star anise and cinnamon stick for 4-5 minutes, remove the pot from the stove

  4. 4

    Mix 150 g fat, 75 g sugar, eggs, egg yolks, lemon peel, salt and vanillin sugar with the whisks of the hand mixer for 2-3 minutes. Add the pre-dough and 200 g flour and knead to a smooth dough with the dough hooks of the hand mixer. Knead candied fruit, almonds and rum into the dough. Pour the dough into a greased, flour-dusted ring cake mould (approx. 2.5 litres capacity), cover and leave to rise in a warm place for approx. 25 minutes. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for approx. 45 minutes

  5. 5

    Take out the cake and let it cool in the mould for about 5 minutes, then turn out onto a cake rack. Melt 50 g fat in a pot and spread it on the cake with a brush, let it cool down. Mix icing sugar, lemon juice and 1 teaspoon of water to a thick icing, place on the cake and let it run down slightly. Put the orange zest in a sieve, drain and decorate the cake with it

  6. 6

    waiting time approx. 3 hours

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
270 kcal
CARBS
33 g
FATS
13 g
PROTEINS
4 g

Categories & Tags

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