{"id":81,"date":"2013-11-24T03:30:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T03:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buysaffrononline.co.uk\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2013-12-30T17:28:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T17:28:35","slug":"honey-saffron-christmas-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buysaffrononline.co.uk\/blog\/honey-saffron-christmas-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Honey Saffron Christmas Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/buysaffrononline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/honeysaffron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82\" alt=\"honeysaffron\" src=\"http:\/\/buysaffrononline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/honeysaffron.jpg\" width=\"566\" height=\"333\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Its that time of the year again  so sample all the flavours of Christmas without the heaviness.<\/p>\n<p>Method<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Heat oven to 160C\/fan 140C\/gas 3. Butter and line a round, deep 20cm cake tin with two layers of baking parchment . Tie a few sheets of newspaper around the outside of the tin, level with the top of the baking parchment.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Heat the brandy in a small pan, then add the <a href=\"http:\/\/buysaffrononline.co.uk\">saffron<\/a> and leave to infuse off the heat for a few minutes. Put the butter, sugar, eggs, flour, ground almonds, baking powder and a pinch of salt into a bowl, then beat together until creamy and smooth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mix the fruit, nuts and brandy saffron mix into the batter and stir well.Spoon into the prepared tin, smooth the top and make a slight dip in the middle. Bake for 1\u00bd hrs, then cover loosely with foil to stop the top over-browning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Turn oven down to 140C\/fan 120C\/gas 1 and cook for 1 hr more until a skewer comes out clean. Leave to cool in the tin then, while it\u2019s still warm, prod the cake all over with a skewer.<\/p>\n<p>Mix the brandy and honey together and spoon over the cake.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wrap up well in foil and keep in an airtight container until Christmas, feeding with more honeyed brandy every so often.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recipe from Good Food magazine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcgoodfood.com\/search\/recipes\/date\/1196467200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 2007<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its that time of the year again so sample all the flavours of Christmas without the heaviness. Method Heat oven to 160C\/fan 140C\/gas 3. Butter and line a round, deep 20cm cake tin with two layers of baking parchment . Tie a few sheets of newspaper around the outside of the tin, level with the top of the baking parchment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7,13,30,10,12,11,6,20,15,8,5],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","tag-buy-saffron-online","tag-buysaffrononline-co-uk","tag-cooking-with-saffron","tag-fresh-saffron","tag-premium-quality-saffron","tag-pure-saffron","tag-saffron","tag-saffron-christmas-cake","tag-saffron-recipes","tag-spanish-saffron","tag-what-is-saffron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buysaffrononline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buysaffrononline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buysaffrononline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buysaffrononline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buysaffrononline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/buysaffrononline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/buysaffrononline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buysaffrononline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buysaffrononline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buysaffrononline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}