Christmas cake.

Greetings friends of the beehive, welcome a blog.

This time I bring you a recipe that will leave you with baca agua, it is nothing more and nothing less than the Christmas cake. It is a tradition to prepare this cake at Christmas, it is very delicious and very easy to prepare. Without anything else to say, let's start with this magnificent recipe.

We are going to need:

Wheat flour (390 gr)
Cocoa (100 gr)
Sugar (400 gr)
Candied fruits (200 gr)
Milk (500 ml)
Hot water (200 ml)
Vanilla essence (2 teaspoons)
Baking powder (2 teaspoons)
Rum (3 teaspoons)
Eggs (3 units)

For the chocolate coating:

1 cup of milk.
20 gr of cocoa.
4 tablespoons of sugar.
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 teaspoon of vanilla.

Let's start with the preparation.

Mix the eggs and sugar until we get a cream.

Then we add the milk little by little and continue mixing.

Add the wheat flour, cocoa and sieved baking powder. We mix until everything is integrated.

Later, we add the vanilla, liquor, the fruits and continue mixing.

Finally we add the hot water little by little.

Add the mixture to a previously greased and floured tray. Bake for 50 minutes at 180 ºC or until the toothpick comes out clean.

Let it cool and then unmold.

Now we prepare the chocolate coating. We mix all the ingredients and then we cook it until thick. We can also use the chocolate bars, we melt it in the microwave or in a bain-marie.

We cover the cake with the chocolate and refrigerate for 2 hours.

If it is to your liking, add colored rain, chocolate, candied fruits, whatever you like the most. Look how good my Christmas cake is.

I hope you have enjoyed friends, I say goodbye wishing you a happy night.