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Easy Christmas fruit cake recipe with cake mix, homemade with simple ingredients. Soft and moist but firm. Full of candied fruits, nuts and aromatic spices.

Christmas Fruit Cake With Cake Mix

Eggs (Large)

Applesauce (Unsweetened)

Spice cake mix

container Candied fruit

Roughly chopped nuts (I used pecans and walnuts)

All-purpose flour

In a large mixing bowl, add eggs, applesauce and mix until smooth.

Add spice cake mix and mix until just combined.

In a separate bowl, mix together candied fruits, nuts, flour until nuts and fruits are properly coated.

Stir this fruit and nut mixture (along with any excess flour) into the cake batter gently. Do not rigorously mix!

Pour batter into 2 greased and floured or lined loaf pans (Dimensions: 8x4).

Bake at 275 degrees F for about 1 hour 45 min or until an inserted toothpick in the center comes out clean.  Keep a close eye from the 1 hour 30 minutes point.

Remove from oven and allow it to cool completely.

Run a knife along the sides of the cakes and remove from pan.

Enjoy as is or top with frosting, syrup or glaze. Enjoy!

This festive Christmas Tree Cake combines a light and fluffy chocolate cake with buttercream and jam, and is easy to decorate like a Christmas tree.

Christmas Tree Cake

250 g Butter (softened)

250 g Caster sugar

Eggs (medium)

Self-raising flour

Cocoa powder

Baking powder

tsp Vanilla extract

140 g Plain yogurt

Chocolate chips (dark)

250 g Butter

400 g Icing sugar

Milk

tbsp Vanilla extract

g Jam

g Food colouring gel (Green)

g Food colouring gel (Yellow)

g Food colouring gel (Red)

Preheat your oven to 180°C/160°C(fan)/350°F/Gas 4. Grease and line a 30x20cm (12x10&quot;) baking tin.

Add 250 g Butter and 250 g Caster sugar to a large mixing bowl. Mix together until light and fluffy.

Whisk in 4 Eggs one at a time.

Sift in 210 g Self-raising flour, 20 g Cocoa powder and 1 tsp Baking powder. Gently fold the dry ingredients in.

Add 140 g Plain yogurt, 1 tsp Vanilla extract and 50 g Chocolate chips. Carefully fold these into the mixture.

Pour the cake batter into the lined baking tin and smooth over. Bake for 30-40 minutes, until an inserted knife comes out clean.

Once cooked, leave the cake to cool for at least 10 minutes.

Slice the cake in half through the middle and spread 100 g Jam over the bottom half.

To make the cake

Mix together 250 g Butter, 400 g Icing sugar, 2 tbsp Milk and 1 tbsp Vanilla extract, until smooth.

Remove two small amounts and put in separate bowls.

Add 15 g Food colouring gel (green) to the large amount and 5 g Food colouring gel (red) and 5 g Food colouring gel (yellow) to the smaller amounts. Mix well to get the desired colours.

To make the buttercream

Pipe about 1/3 of the green icing onto the jam. Put the top half of the cake back on and cut out a tree shape.

Starting from the bottom of the tree, pipe the remaining green icing in small downward motions, working upwards and slightly overlapping the row below.

Add small spots of red and yellow icing to make lights and baubles.

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This super easy Christmas Tree Cake is so fun to make and decorate and the perfect festive activity with the kids. A light and moist chocolate cake layered with buttercream and jam and then cut into a Christmas tree and iced with decorations.

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