Mary Berry Christmas Cake Mix - Tesco's - NOW £2!!

pretzelnut

Miss_Mollie wrote: »

Princess Woo, the knack is to turn it upside down then marzipan and ice what was the base of the cake, then you have a lovely flat surface to work with!

Like you, I have already made one - posted last Friday on the Tesco Mega reduction thread - and husband is already a third through it!

hat do you do with the gap at the bottom, stuff it with marzipan?

Miss_Mollie

princesswoo wrote: »

hat do you do with the gap at the bottom, stuff it with marzipan?

Can do if you've not eaten it before it got near the cake - but seriously, you won't notice it when it's on the plate or you could trim the cake or before you cook it make a slight dip in the centre which will compensate for any rising, though there shouldn't be much.

Think these are really good value

pretzelnut

CHRISTMAS CAKE FOR DIABETICS

Makes 36 portions.
Metric/Imperial
175g/6oz sultanas
175g/6oz raisins
100g/4oz currants
50g/2oz glac! cherries chopped
275ml/½pint cold tea
200g/7oz polyunsaturated margarine
50g/2oz ground almonds
275g/10oz wholemeal flour
2x5ml sp/2tsp baking powder
2x5ml sp/2tsp mixed spice
3 size 3 eggs beaten
grated rind of one lemon
50g/2oz blanched almonds chopped
Recipe in next slot:-




1. Put all the dried fruit into a bowl, cover it with the cold tea and leave the fruit to plump up overnight.

2. Cream the margarine and ground almonds until the mixture has lightened in colour. Sieve the flour, baking powder and mixed spice into a bowl and gradually add the eggs and half the flour mixture to the creamed mixture. Fold in the lemon rind and mixed nuts. Carefully fold the remaining flour intothe fruit mixture to make a soft dropping consistency.
Pour the mixture into a greased and lined 20cm/8inch cake tin.

3 Bake the cake at 325ºF/170ºC/gas mark 4 for one hour.
Then reduce the heat to 275ºF/140ºC/gas mark1 for a further 1-1¼hours. Cover the top of the cake with greaseproof paper if it is browning too quickly.
Test the cake in the usual way to see if it is done. When done leave in the tin to cool before turning out.
To store the cake wrap in foil or leave it one day to mature and then freeze it

trolleydolley

Thank you princesswoo! That was a very nice thing to do.

thumperrabbit

I too got one of these kits, they seem amazing value as last year I spent a fortune buying all the individual bits. I will be cooking it with the kids this morning since they are off school.

yabajaz

it is such a affordable cake - thanks OP x
I have substituted their flour for gluten free ad made a cake suitable for my sister-in-law.... she'll be thrilled.

lucy*locket

I don't know whether you can use it against this cake mix but in yesterday's Sun newspaper there was a voucher for £1 off when you spend £5 or over on christmas cakes.

Will give it a go when I do my shopping later, worth cutting out the voucher if you have a copy.

Picasso7

princesswoo wrote: »

I could have but I didnt have any small dishes / cake tins and I wasnt going to buy them just for this purpose.

If you bake a square cake you can just cut it into 1/4's and have 4 small square cakes.

The cheapest way of getting small cake tins is to buy tinned Heinz sponge puddings. Ignore instructions and open one end only (as you do most cans) and you'll be able to cook and eat the sponge puddings. Wash the tins and, hey presto, you have small cake tins! I have been using these for some years and tuck them away at the back of the cupboard together with the brown paper and string which I tie round them. This year I've lined the tins with reusable liner (like this except mine was from a pound shop) which I will keep for future years as the tins are quite fiddly to line. There's no need to grease the tins if you use stuff like this. It also takes less time for the cakes to cook, saving electricity.

Off to Tesco tonight and will keep an eye out for the cake mix, though I am probably too late!

Welsh_Poppy

Thanks to this thread been to Mr T and bought 2 kits for the Christmas cake,I always make my own which costs a fortune so will try this one out will make 4 small ones out of one...for friends at church who live on there own.Have to make tomorrow as having new kitchen Monday and will have no kitchen!!
I did have to go too 2 stores to find the kits .

rachelhen

I got two cake kits but where can i get a cheap cake tin of the right size?