Christmas Cake by Sonia

27.Nov.25 | Nutrition

By Sonia Osborne, Nutrition Consultant

 

Celebrate Your Health This Christmas

The holiday season is a wonderful time to relax, connect with loved ones, and enjoy great food … and that can absolutely include delicious treats that support you.

Our Nutrition Consultant, Sonia Osborne is sharing her Christmas Cake recipe. Reducing inflammation through diet is her specialty!

Wishing you all a healthy and happy Christmas.

 

 

SONIA’S CHRISTMAS CAKE

My Christmas Cake recipe is wonderfully moist and sweet and nourishing twist on the traditional favourite.

It’s made with almond meal, which is naturally rich in healthy fats, fibre, and vitamin E, and may help reduce inflammation in the body when replacing wheat. It is also sweetened and with dried fruit and orange juice (did you know that the juice of just one orange provides enough vitamin C to meet your daily needs).

Enjoy a slice knowing that you’re treating both your taste buds and your body kindly. 

Ingredients (makes 16-20 Small slices):

600g mixed dried fruit of choice (raisins, cranberries, prunes, figs, apricot, currants, sultanas, dates.. choose sulfur free if possible)
1 Teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 Teaspoons pure vanilla essence
¼ Teaspoon nutmeg
Zest and juice from 1 orange
3 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil or Macadamia Nut Oil
3 Free ranged eggs
200g (2 cups) almond meal
50g walnuts

Method:

Preheat your oven to 150DegC (fan forced).

Prepare a 20cm round cake tin with baking paper (lining the sides and the base)

Combine dried fruit, spice, vanilla, orange zest and juice, oil and eggs. Add the almond meal and walnuts and mix through.

Spoon the Christmas Cake batter into your baking tin.

Bake for 1 hour and 30 minutes. Check with a skewer to see if it comes out clean, if not bake for another 30 minutes (but cover the top if with foil to prevent over-browning).

Remove from the oven** and allow to cool, then remove from the tin and store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 1 month.

**If you would like to add some liqueur (e.g. orange liqueur) then skewer holes in the cake as soon as it come out of the oven and pour over ¼ cup of liqueur and allow it to penetrate in the holes.

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