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Biblical Cake (NZ)

Ingredients

6 oz butter
3 eggs
2 tsp baking powder
8 oz raisins
1/2 tsp mixed spice
6 oz sugar
12 oz sifted flour
1/2 cup milk
2 tbsp honey
8 oz chopped figs or dates
Salt

Method

Cream the butter and sugar. Add the eggs and a pinch of salt.
Mix in the rest of the ingredients, stirring well, adding the fruit last.
Bake in an 8 inch tin at 350°F for 1 1/2-2 hours.

Danish Christmas Cake

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Ingredients:
1 cup shortening
1 1/3 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 1/2 tsp soda
1 tsp salt
3 cup sifted flour
1 tbl orange juice
1 lb chopped dates
2 cup chopped nuts
1 1/4 cup chopped Maraschino cherries
1 tbl grated orange rind
1 cup buttermilk
Sauce:
1 cup sugar
1 cup orange juice
1 grated orange rind
1 cup coconut

Method

Combine shortening, sugar, and eggs. Sift soda, salt, and flour together and add to shortening mixture. Add orange juice. Fold in remaining ingredients.

Bake in one large tube pan that has been well greased or in 2 loaf pans. Bake at 325°F for 1 hour and 20 minutes for tube pan or 60 to 70 minutes for loaf pans.

Make sauce while cake is baking: heat the sugar and the orange juice. Add the grated rind and the coconut. Mix well.

Remove from the heat, and allow to rest and cool while the cake bakes.

When the cake is baked, pour the sauce on the hot cake. Add extra coconut to the top. Let cool in the pan for about 30 minutes.

Chocolate Cherry Kuchen

3/4 cup butter or margarine
3 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
3 eggs, beaten
1 1/2 cups sifted cake flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 (16 ounce) can pitted sour red cherries
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup whipping cream

Melt butter or margarine and chocolate together over hot water. Add sugar to beaten eggs gradually while beating. Add chocolate mixture to egg mixture; beat hard for 1 minute.
Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt. Drain cherries thoroughly; add to flour mixture, and stir into chocolate-egg mixture. Stir in vanilla extract.
Divide batter evenly between 2 greased and floured 9-inch layer cake pans. Bake at 350 degrees F for 35 to 40 minutes. Cool.
Whip cream; spread between layers and on top of cake. Chill.

Christmas Candy

1 pound (468 gms) white chocolate
1 cup small pretzels, broken into small pieces
1 cup pecans, chopped

Melt the chocolate. Stir the pretzels and pecans into chocolate and drop by teaspoon onto waxed paper. Handy edible gift suggestion.