Christmas-Cake

I wish you all a nice second Christmas Eve.

For Christmas I baked a christmas-cake - my first attempt to bake such a cake. It worked , though not perfect, but it worked. My family has very tasty and me too, although I do not like so such cakes. But I must say, you need time for it and therefore patience ;) It was worth it. The taste of chocolate and fruity jam and delicious cinnamon cream was delicious.

The price for the ingredients:ca. 8€ and the time for preparation and so on: ca. 2 hours

Ingredients: 

For the cake base: 

6 eggs
4 tbsp. of warm water
200g sugar
225g ground nuts
2tsp. of backing powder
100 of grated chocolate
110g flour

For the filling:

250g apricot jam
1 package of custard powder (vanilla)
450ml milk
2 tbsp. of sugar
250g butter
1 tbsp. of cinnamon

For the decoration:

1 marzipan cover or chocolate glazing

1.

For the cake base you have beat eggs, sugar and hot water until frothy. Fold in nuts, flour, baking powder and chocolate chips. Put the dough into a springform pan (24-26) and bake in preheated oven at 190 ° C (about 35 minutes). Leave to cool the cake and cut twice.

2.

For the filling cook a pudding with milk, custard powder and sugar. The pudding have to cool ,but you have to stir it often. Cream butter and cinnamon until fluffy and stir in the cooled custard slowly.

3.

Warm the jam slightly and spread on the lower base, then place the second. Then comes the half of the cream on it. Put the third cake-piece on it. Then the rest of the cream.

The cake must be at least one hour in the refrigerator.

4.

Then decorate the cake with icing or marzipan cover. 

Do you also ate cakes at christmas? Wich ones?