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This cake is from Delia Smith's Delia Online and is ideal for those who may not have had time to make the more traditional cake, that is fed over a few. Delia's Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat Cake recipe. You didn't have time, you don't want the factory version, so this one made simply with a jar of mincemeat will make a really speedy but excellent. This jewelled mincemeat takes minutes to make and can be used immediately.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have last-minute christmas mincemeat using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat:

1. Get 400 g dried fruit, I used raisins and sultanas only but you could also add dried cranberries, cherries, mixed peel etc
2. Take 1 eating apple, peeled
3. Take 100 g marzipan, grated
4. Get 50 g butter
5. Prepare 50 g chopped almonds or cashew nuts
6. Prepare 75 g soft muscovado sugar
7. Get 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
8. Prepare 1 tsp mixed spice
9. Prepare finely grated rind and juice of 1 lemon
10. Prepare 200 ml brandy, rum or whiskey

A great last-minute tart that can be made for extra guests at Christmas. A pinch of flour, for sprinkling. Remove and leave to cool completely, then fill with mincemeat. Remove the chilled pastry from the fridge and cut out holly or star shapes, then use to decorate your tart.

Steps to make Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat:

1. Mix the dried fruit together. Weigh the nuts and break them up gently with the end of a rolling pin or chop roughly with a knife.
2. Grate the marzipan and the apple. Put in a pan together with the dried fruit, nuts and butter.
3. Add the sugar and spices and grate in the lemon zest, then squeeze the lemon and add the juice to the pan. Cover and heat gently, stirring as the butter and marzipan melt so everything mixes together.
4. Simmer gently for about 10 minutes, then leave to cool. When completely cool add and stir in the rum, whiskey or brandy.
5. I left it to stand for a while longer as it looked too liquid, and in about an hour or two the rum had been absorbed into the fruit. I then transferred it to jars (two of them) left them to stand overnight, then used the mincemeat to make mince pies the next day, see separate recipe.

Remove and leave to cool completely, then fill with mincemeat. Remove the chilled pastry from the fridge and cut out holly or star shapes, then use to decorate your tart. A simple Classic Christmas mincemeat recipe for you to cook a great meal for family or friends. Buy the ingredients for our Classic Christmas mincemeat recipe from Tesco This festive mincemeat will last a very long time if kept in an airtight container, so you can make this well in advance of giving. Mincemeat pie, also called mince pie, has occupied a prominent place on Britain's holiday table for centuries and that tradition continues today.

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