Christmas Chocolate Cake Recipe From Scratch

Christmas chocolate cake recipe: a journey towards a delicious treat. Today, I am going to share this incredible moist Christmas cake recipe. This cake is prepared with a combination of healthy dry fruits and fresh fruit peels. 

Chocolate cakes are mostly prepared with cocoa powder, butter, and essential ingredients. Butter provides extra flavor to the cake. But seriously, if you want to make it extra chocolaty, you can add a chocolate bar (melted form) to the cake batter, and you will get an extra fudgy cake. The addition of melted chocolate in a Christmas chocolate cake recipe will be unique.

Some Pro Tips to Follow Perfect Christmas Chocolate Cake Recipe

As everyone wants to get the best chocolate Christmas cake for their Christmas evening dining table, I am giving some professional baking tips. While following these Christmas chocolate cake recipe tips, you will not be disappointed. 

When mixing the batter, you have to keep an eye on the consistency of the batter, which is very important; if your batter is extra complicated, the result will be a dry and hard cake. A medium-consistency batter will lead to a dense cake if the consistency is expected ( when you fill a spoon of batter and drop it in the bowl, it will quickly get dropped rather than sticking with the spoon). This type of consistency is the best one for this Christmas chocolate cake. If you are not getting this consistency, gradually add one tablespoon of milk and mix in batter. Now, test the consistency of the batter with the spoon. If it’s again stuck with a spoon, mix another tablespoon of milk into the batter. Do it until you get the desired consistency. 

I tried some extra butter in my heavy chocolate sponge cake, which made it extra tasteful. You can check the quantity of butter from my recipe and add it to this Christmas chocolate cake.    

Avoid using low-quality chocolates. They contain less cocoa and a high amount of sugar, which may ruin the taste of the cake and prevent you from getting the desired chocolaty sponge and ganache. You can use good quality chocolate; some of them are affordable, too. 

Bake the cake in a preheated oven so that it may start baking immediately.

Soak all dry fruits overnight. It will make their flavor better with a Christmas cake. 

Most Traditional Christmas Cake recipes include wine, but it is not necessary. You can replace it with any fruit juice to soak all dry fruits. 

My fruit cake recipe resembles this Christmas cake a lot. So you can also try that. Even a 100-year-old cake recipe will surprise you. 

Let’s Go Through Christmas Chocolate Cake Recipe 

If you are looking for an easy Christmas cake recipe, then you can surely try this one. I baked cherry and almond Christmas cake before this one, and that also got many positive responses from my family members. Some people are fond of almonds and coffee, so I baked a combo cake of these two: coffee and walnut Christmas cake that was truly loved by my friends.  

Ingredients:

prunes (scissored or chopped) – 350 grams

• Raisins – 250 grams
• Currants – 125 grams
• candied orange peel -50 grams piece 
• unsalted butter – 175 grams soft 
• dark brown muscovado sugar -175 grams 
• runny honey – 12 tablespoons
• coffee liqueur- 8 ½ tablespoons
• oranges – 2 – 3 take juice and zest both 
• mixed spice – 1 teaspoon 
• Cocoa – 4 tablespoons
• eggs (beaten) – 3 large
• plain flour – ⅔ cup
• ground almonds – ⅔ cup
• baking powder -½ teaspoon
• bicarbonate of soda – ½ teaspoon

Procedure:

1. Preheat your oven to 180°C (350°F).
2. Line a round cake tin completely with baking parchment—both bottom and sides. Cover the entire sides of the cake pan with parchment paper. Then, grease the top of the paper with oil.
3. Put all the fruits, butter, sugar, runny honey, Tia Maria, orange juice and zests, spice, and cocoa in a saucepan on low heat. When the butter melts completely, cover it and simmer it for 11 to 12 minutes. Then turn off the flame and let it set for 40 minutes. Meanwhile, start preparing the batter for the chocolate Christmas cake. When it’s cooled, add it to the batter. 
4. Batter Preparation:
5. Take a bowl of stand mixer and beat eggs for 5 minutes. Then add flour, ground almonds, baking powder, and bicarbonate of soda and mix it with a silicon spatula.
6. If the batter is too dry, add 3 tbsp milk to soften it slightly. Then, fold all the fruit mixture into the cake batter and pour this batter into a greased cake tin. 
7. Place the cake in the oven for 45 minutes or until it is done thoroughly. Insert a cake tester into the middle, and it will still be soft and goopy.
8. When the chocolate cake is baked completely, place it on a cooling rack to cool. Once cooled, unmould the cake, wrap it in baking parchment and then foil, and store it in a tin if you are not going to eat it right away (like any fruit cake, it has a very long shelf life).
9. If you want to ice it, then ice it with whipping cream icing (used in my double chocolate cake) or chocolate ganache ( used in my fudge cake),  as I iced my previous cakes. 
10. Sprinkle chocolate zest on the top of the cake and fix chocolate roll wafers on its sides. Then, place some of the strawberries on it to give it a festive look. 

After trying the Chocolate Christmas Cake Recipe, you will have a cake fresh from the oven that is ready to serve. It’s entirely up to you. You can serve it fresh or with frosting.