Mary Berry’s Mincemeat Loaf Cake is extremely simple to make and tastes unimaginable! Good for sharing and gifting throughout the holidays and appropriate for baking in your air fryer or the oven. This gentle fruit cake takes simply minutes to throw collectively – I do know it should turn into a festive favourite.
Additionally, you will like Mary Berry’s Foolproof Victoria Sponge recipe.
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I all the time flip to Mary Berry’s foolproof recipes every time I’m baking for the vacations. Her mincemeat loaf cake is a real traditional and one of many best Christmas muffins you’ll ever bake.
The mincemeat retains these little loaf muffins fantastically moist and the recipe is a one-bowl marvel, able to bake in actually 5 minutes.
So fast the truth is, that your oven gained’t have time to preheat – which is why I made a decision to bake these in my air fryer 😉
These go down so nicely, you could need to double the recipe to make a couple of of those for gifting throughout the holidays. They’re additionally fabulous for Christmas faculty gala’s.
HERE’S WHAT YOU WILL NEED
I tweaked Mary’s recipe, solely barely, to make it EVEN EASIER. The cake itself makes use of solely 5 elements with a few extra topping choices to jazz issues up a bit. You have to to make use of two 450g (1 pound) small loaf pans to bake the mincemeat loaf muffins.
- Self-raising flour – verify it’s inside date if you happen to don’t bake usually
- Gentle comfortable brown sugar
- Eggs – medium eggs at room temperature
- Margarine (Stork) straight from the fridge or softened unsalted butter
- Mincemeat – use a great high quality store-bought mincemeat or you need to use home made after all.
- Blanched almonds and cocktail or glacé cherries to prime the muffins
- Easy apricot jam, to glaze
HOW TO MAKE MARY BERRY’S MINCEMEAT LOAF CAKES
Full measurements and directions might be discovered on the printable recipe card on the backside of the web page. Please check out the steps and video earlier than trying this recipe!
PREPARE THE CAKE
Mist two small loaf pans with cake launch and line the edges with baking paper, letting it cling over the edges of the tin. I prefer to clip the paper to the pans, particularly if baking in an air fryer.
Add the self-raising flour and sugar to a big mixing bowl. Prime with the eggs, Stork or butter, and mincemeat.
Beat collectively utilizing a hand mixer till the batter is nicely blended, stopping to scrape the underside and sides of the bowl with a spatula as wanted.
Use a cookie scoop to divide the batter between the cake pans. Stage and prime with the blanched almonds.
TO AIR FRY
Preheat the air fryer to 150°C (300°F) for 3 minutes. Add the cake pans to the air fryer basket and bake for 45 minutes, or till the cake is golden and a toothpick inserted within the center comes out clear. If the toothpick comes out with moist batter, add 5-7 minutes to the cooking time (See notes).
TO OVEN BAKE
Bake in a 160°C (320°F) preheated oven for 1 hour and quarter-hour, or till the cake passes the toothpick take a look at.
DECORATE AND SERVE
Raise the muffins out of the tins utilizing the baking paper. Brush with the nice and cozy apricot jam to glaze and embellish with halved glacé cherries. Go away to dry for 10 minutes then brush with one other layer of jam.
Cool earlier than slicing because the muffins can bit a bit crumbly if you happen to rush to chop them whereas nonetheless heat.
RECIPE TIPS
This can be a nice recipe for utilizing up leftover mincemeat. If you happen to don’t have sufficient, you possibly can complement by including dried fruit corresponding to sultanas or raisins. If the fruit is absolutely dry, you possibly can soak it in sizzling tea or some brandy earlier than utilizing.
CAN I MAKE ONE LARGE MINCEMEAT CAKE? You may bake this recipe in a 950g (2lbs) cake pan nevertheless it tends to brown an excessive amount of and turns into a bit of dry because it must bake for even longer. I’d advise you to make use of the smaller loaf pans.
STORING AND FREEZING The cake retains rather well for a couple of week at room temperature in a cake container. It’s also possible to freeze it, nicely wrapped, for as much as two months.
ADJUSTING COOKING TIME IN AIR FRYER I examined this recipe in my On the spot Vortex and Cosori air fryers and I found that the Cosori tends to run about 5° levels hotter, which suggests the cake browns rather a lot sooner. If that’s the case together with your air fryer you possibly can modify by lowering the temperature barely.
SKIP THE DECORATIONS AND FEED THE CAKES As an alternative of adorning and glazing the mincemeat muffins, you possibly can pierce them with a skewer and feed them with brandy. Drizzle the brandy over the cake and wrap in parchment. Repeat a few instances over the interval of 10 days. The cake can then be topped with marzipan and royal icing (take a look at my Christmas Cake for extra particulars).
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Mary Berry Mincemeat Loaf Cake (Air Fryer or Oven)
Mary Berry’s Mincemeat Loaf Cake is extremely simple to make and tastes unimaginable! Good for sharing and gifting throughout the holidays and appropriate for baking in your air fryer or the oven. This gentle fruit cake takes simply minutes to throw collectively – I do know it should turn into a festive favourite
Servings: 2 small loaves
Energy: 2279kcal
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Directions
PREPARE THE CAKE
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Mist two small loaf tins with cake launch and line the edges with baking paper, letting it cling over the edges of the tin. I prefer to clip the paper to the pans, particularly if baking in an air fryer.
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Add the self-raising flour and sugar to a big mixing bowl. Prime with the eggs, Stork or butter, and mincemeat.
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Beat collectively utilizing a hand mixer till the batter is nicely blended, stopping to scrape the underside and sides of the bowl with a spatula as wanted.
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Use a cookie scoop to divide the batter between the cake pans. Stage and prime with the blanched almonds.
TO AIR FRY
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Preheat the air fryer to 150°C (300°F) for 3 minutes. Add the cake pans to the air fryer basket and bake for 45 minutes, or till the cake is golden brown and a toothpick inserted within the center comes out clear. If the toothpick comes out with moist batter, add 5-7 minutes to the cooking time (See notes).
DECORATE AND SERVE
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Raise the muffins out of the tins utilizing the baking paper and onto a wire rack.
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Warmth the jam in a saucepan and stir. Brush with the nice and cozy apricot jam to glaze and embellish with halved glacé cherries. Go away to dry for 10 minutes then brush with one other layer of jam.
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Cool earlier than slicing because the muffins can bit a bit crumbly if you happen to rush to chop them whereas nonetheless heat.
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Notes
- This can be a nice recipe for utilizing up leftover mincemeat from making mince pies. If you happen to don’t have sufficient, you possibly can complement by including dried fruit corresponding to sultanas or raisins. If the fruit is absolutely dry, you possibly can soak it in sizzling tea or some brandy to plump it up earlier than utilizing.
- You may bake this recipe in a 950g (2lbs) cake pan nevertheless it tends to brown an excessive amount of and turns into a bit of dry because it must bake for even longer. I’d advise you to make use of the smaller loaf pans.
- STORING AND FREEZING The cake retains rather well for a couple of week at room temperature in an hermetic container. It’s also possible to freeze it, nicely wrapped, for as much as two months.
- ADJUSTING COOKING TIME IN AIR FRYER I examined this recipe in my On the spot Vortex and Cosori air fryers and I found that the Cosori tends to run about 5 levels hotter, which suggests the cake browns rather a lot sooner. If that’s the case together with your air fryer you possibly can modify by lowering the temperature barely.
Dietary Information
Energy: 2279kcal | Carbohydrates: 368g | Protein: 30g | Fats: 80g | Saturated Fats: 15g | Polyunsaturated Fats: 20g | Monounsaturated Fats: 40g | Trans Fats: 0.02g | Ldl cholesterol: 164mg | Sodium: 1995mg | Potassium: 492mg | Fiber: 11g | Sugar: 249g | Vitamin A: 2986IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 191mg | Iron: 3mg
