Merry Christmas!
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- Опубликовано: 24 дек 2023
- Merry Christmas, my dear friends!
As a present for you, I going to cook a cake in this video.
Patagonian Black Welsh Cake Recipe
Ingredients
1 cup walnuts, almonds, or hazelnuts, or a mix of all three
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup golden raisins
1/2 cup chopped candied fruit peel (optional)
1/4 cup chopped maraschino cherries (optional)
1 cup rum
1 cup butter, softened
1 1/4 cup dark brown sugar
5 eggs, separated
2 tablespoons molasses
3 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon pie spice
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
3 to 4 tablespoons fresh orange juice
• Roughly chop the nuts. Soak the nuts, raisins, and candied fruit in the rum overnight. Drain the nuts and fruit and reserve the rum.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Cream the butter with the brown sugar.
•Gradually beat in the five egg yolks, molasses, and honey.
• Sift the flour with the cinnamon, pie spice, and baking powder and add to the batter, alternating with the reserved rum. Stir in nuts, raisins, and fruit.
• In a separate, clean bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form. Fold egg whites gently into the batter.
• Pour the batter into a 9 x 5-inch bread pan, or into a 10-inch diameter by 2-inch cake pan.
•Bake for 45 minutes, then check the cake. A toothpick inserted in the center should come out clean. If the cake is not done, return to the oven and check every 10 minutes until the toothpick comes out clean.
Hi Ksenia! I'm Argentinian and I have eaten this delicious cake in Patagonia. I never knew what it was made of but it has a lot of dried fruit and nuts. It's just great. It's good to see you laughing again. I hope your life is easier now. Always good to know from you.
I am not much of a cook. But I had great fun and laughter watching you bake this cake. It looks great. You did a fine job. Merry Christmas! From Maryland USA
Donna’s I’m from Maryland too!
So glad to see you. I hope things are going well.
This was fun. Enjoyed watching you bake the cake.
Happy Christmas, Ksenia! Thank you for continuing your channel!
Thank you very much, Ksenia! It’s always nice to watch a video of yours 😊 Love from Spain! 🇪🇸 🇷🇺
Ksenia, you did a great job considering that you couldn't find the exact ingredients called for and that you had to deal with the hassle of making the conversions between the two different measuring systems. The final result looked good, even the burnt parts were able to be cut off so that was no big deal. The alcohol could probably be omitted if you wanted to do so. I would probably soak the walnuts in(if I could afford it 😂) a small amount of "Grand Marnier", the French orange flavored liqueur but it's not necessary and it's quite expensive. I liked your addition of the powered sugar on your cake the next day. You could top it with whipped cream if you wanted to. The cake looks like a kind of spice cake, of which there are many different varieties. Thanks for taking the time and expense of making this for your viewers. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas in January and a Happy New Year.
Merry Christmas Ksenia. So glad to see you posted a video. I hope you are doing great and are safe.
You did a great job with what you had! Well done! And good to see you giggling and looking happy! Merry Christmas sweetie. Love from London 💗
Merry Christmas Ksenia! 🎄 Thank you for the beautiful present! 🥮
I’m Welsh, and very curious about this recipe😅 - we don’t use cups, and we’d probably not use rum in a cake and molasses are an American ingredient- maybe like our Treacle though. We also use quite basic and cheap ingredients. I applaud your tenacity in following this recipe😂 . Merry Christmas, or Nadolig Llawen
"Cups" as measuring tool sometimes are easier because you don't need to fuss about weighing the ingredients. Even in highschools (in England) nowadays during Food Technology children sometimes have recipes in cups. There are special measuring cups. It's just using volume rather than the weight.
@@OlgasBritishFells I am British/German and do not like cup measurements. I find it inaccurate and do not understand why Americans seem to have a problem weighing out ingredients. I have 1 recipe which is an American carrot cake and is of course in cups, it is the only American recipe I make and it really is nice.
@@susanlindadalton1287I don’t know that we “have a problem” weighing ingredients. But why get out a scale when there’s a measuring cup handy. Bakers all over the country seem to have no problem producing fine products using a measuring cup. Seems way easier to me so I’m not sure why it’s confusing that’s what we use.
My granny used to use Blackstrap Molasses. Very dark, thick syrup. Betting that's why cake says Black Cake. It makes a cake dark and moist. Very good. Also good with homemade biscuits and butter 😋
Ooohhh that sounds delicious!!
You’re right Ksenia, weight is much easier than cup measurements but most of the recipes in the US and Canada are written in them. I usually google the weight equivalent. Our butter is also wrapped in packaging that marks the measurement so that makes it easier. Merry Christmas and happy New Year to you and your family when your holiday comes around.
Merry Christmas from Las Vegas NV
Merry Christmas! The cake 🎂 looks fine.😊❤
Fun to watch video. Merry Christmas
Thank you Ksenia I always enjoy your videos
The internet has all conversions of cups of butter to grams, sugar in cups to grams, and flour, etc. Any ingredients from volume in English to metric weight and vice versa.
Happy Christmas and best wishes for the New Year 🎉❤🎉
This was fun watching you make this complicated cake!!! It's a very nice Christmas gift from you to us viewers. It looks pretty good!! I"d love to taste it. Thanks for sharing and hugs and kisses from Minnesota😘
Hope you have a great Christmas in a couple of weeks. From Australia 🎁🎄🎅
This is a fabulous return, Ksenia! I've been baking a great deal, recently and those recipes using cup measurements are foolproof, but a bit perplexing. I certainly understand how you felt about that. The only thing you got wrong was baking soda probably should have been in teaspoons, not big spoons.
You could have either covered the cake when you noticed it wasn't cooking evenly with baking paper or foil (well spotted though), or reduced the heat (but yep, it would have taken forever)!
❤
I totally loved your spontaneity and adaptable approach! 👍🏼 from me 😊!
Merry Christmas
1. 1 cup = 237mls
2. mls measures volume
3. Grams measures weight
4. Cups, as in the American system, measure volume
5. If you are at using an actual cup as a cup, measurement the cake should still work out unless your cup is very small or much bigger than the actual cup measurement Then the ratio of dry ingredients to wet ingredients may not be right.
6. When mixing butter and sugar, yes, always whisk.
7. Molasses is the product which is spun out of regular cane sugar when they're doing a bleaching process to make sugar white. Because in north america we have white sugar. Molasses has a very distinct taste,
which would make the cake taste different.
Different brands of ovens cook differently, and it also depends on your elevation to sea level how your baking will cook.
I'm so glad your back❤
It's 3am here in the UK and I woke up and decided to search to see if you had posted and lo and behold just one hour ago you sent us this wonderful video. I had so much fun watching this - I thought 'this is never going to work with Cup measurements' and the bowl was so full I thought it would rise and overflow all over your oven ... but it turned out surprisingly Great ‼️ I have never heard of this cake before, so thanks for bringing to us.
I wish you a very Happy New Year 🎄🎄☃️☃️
See you in 2024 🧡💛💜💙
To cream means to incorporate the sugar into to butter. Use a mixer. Affects texture.
Molasses is sweet. I think what you used is savory, salty/sweet.
You did a great job K! You worked with what you could get and it came out just fine.
Merry Christmas from Alabama !
Hello Ksenia! Merry Christmas! Here in USA we call this type of cake “Fruit Cake”. It used many spices and dried fruits and some add or soak a little rum or alcohol into the cake. We do not add alcohol, but do add orange zest. It is a moist flavorful cake that tastes better as it ages and can be stored several weeks to let all the flavors bloom.
Nice to see a new video from you, Ksenia! I always have trouble with measurements when I cook, too! Have a great new year!
Hi Ksenia nice to see you again ❤❤❤
I'm excited to see you back! Happy Christmas!
Merry Christmas! Love your videos. I'm watching from New Jersey USA.
Oh my. A cup does not mean a cup you drink out of and there is a cup for liquids and one for dry ingredients. Two sticks of butter which is half a pound equals one cup. If a cake calls for rum, you need to use rum. I wish I could give you a mixer for Christmas. It is good to see you again.
Hi Ksenia, a cup is a volumetric measure. So 1 US cup = 237 ml and 1 metric cup = 250 ml. In order to convert cups to grams you need to know which ingredient you're measuring as obviously a cup of flour will weigh less than a cup of sugar, etc. That cup that you have looks larger than a measuring cup. And yes, sometimes our recipes call for butter to be measured in cups. The foil that our butter is wrapped in when we buy it actually has measurements for 1/4 c, 1/2 c, 1 c, etc. so we can cut a slice of butter rather than trying to squish it into a measuring cup. Also,we can look up online that a metric cup of butter weighs 242 grams so we could also weigh it.
Just buy scales for goodness sake 😂
This is why we love the metric system
We do not measure cup in metric it's 250 mls is 250mls. 237mls is equivalent to 237mls only we don't call it cups in metric
@@personincognito3989 Who are "we"? Baking using recipes from different countries is notoriously difficult and if you look up a "cup" you'll find imperial cups, US cups, Canadian cups, metric cups. So if you're reading a recipe that uses cups you need to know what type of cup it's referring to. Cooking is not such a problem because whether you use 225 ml or 250 ml of something, it's not going to make much difference. Baking can be more finicky.
WELCOME BACK, KSENIA!!
Thank you, Kirk! Merry Christmas!
@@StPetersburgme And may you have a very merry orthodox Christmas in a few weeks!
@@StPetersburgme Happy New Year too! $$$$$
Canadian here and we also use Metric, I think only USA and a couple other countries are the last to not convert over yet. In Canada our butter has markings on the packaging so we cut based on the markings for 1 cup, .5 cup, etc and a block is usually 2 cups. I do find that if I find an american recipe online there are usually buttons to convert the recipe to Metric from imperial so it makes it easier. I hope your cake turns out well.
Merry Christmas from Tennessee, US
Hello nice to see you on here been missing your videos Wishing you a joyess HOLIDAY SEASON
I love it. Do things like this. Talking about these fun things to take our mind away from less cheerful things happening in the world,
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family. Your cake looks delicious. The alcohol evaporates during baking and cooking.
Hi Ksenia nice to see you again on your channel,hope you're well and have rest a lot,its so beautiful to follow you Ksenia evey time,are you celebrating Christmas with your mom and brother in Belarus January 7.😉and happy new year to you Ksenia and your family too. ❤❤❤from 🇩🇰
Merry Christmas 🎉 Have a wonderful day 😂❤
Yipee! I was going to watch an old Christmas video of yours !
Thank you!!🎄🌲🎄🥮
Merry Christmas you did a good job
I love this cake demonstration! You were back to your old self which is good to see. I wish I could get you a measuring cup and spoon set! They are quite cheap here in the US. In the US molasses is put into sugar to make it brown sugar. We have light and dark brown sugar here. The dark brown has more molasses in it. Molasses in a bottle is care dark and thick, it is also very sticky. Hope you have a wonderful Christmas and the New Year brings you much joy!
brown sugar =cane sugar plus molasses. To make brown sugar darker, add more molasses.
Merry Christmas 🎄I hope this up coming year brings peace to Russia
Merry Christmas from Nova Scotia, Canada❤😊
I'm so happy you're back! You are just too funny. You had my husband and me cracking up.
I think you did brilliantly considering! Merry Christmas! xx
Looks like the perfect rum cake! If you let it stand overnight the rum flavor will disparate. Good job 👍
Fabulous to hear from you. Have a safe and wonderful new year. Peace and love
Merry Christmas Ksenia! I am happy to see you here on youtube again. I love your cooking video and am watching it from a my campsite at the beach in Victoria, Australia 2 days after Christmas here as our time zone is ahead of yours. I have never heard of this cake and I appreciate that you have written the recipe for us so we can try it. This video is a great way to explore the differences between cultures and I hope you make more of them. I have to agree with you regarding the use of cups and spoons for measurement. They are messy, less precise and take more time. Many of my recipes use these measurements and I have often thought it would be better to use grams. Nevertheless, I find that near enough is often good enough when baking and most of my cakes turn out nicely but often different every time. Maybe they would be even better if I was more precise with measurements.
Your cake looks good! We always have to practice recipes and get better each time. I add 1/2 cup of applesauce to mine and it is very moist.
Great to see you again! Merry Christmas
What a clever and lovely idea !
Happy Christmas to you and all the best for the coming year. 🇮🇪☘️
Thanks!
Someone likely already said this but in the US, the butter packages have measurements listed on the package so it’s easy to cut what you need.
Cake is so good either way a glass of cold milk! Or a cup of tea or coffee!! Thanks for the recipe!! Good job!
So good to see a new video. Wishing you all the best in 2024.
Ksenia, in America, 1 stick of butter is equal to 1/2 cup. Also the wrapper is labeled with tablespoons and 1/4 cup so you can easily get the amount you need.
Your laugh is infectious. That was fun.
By the way, I ate it in Gaiman or maybe Trelew, I don't remember. There was a beautiful museum with objects from the time of their immigration.
Mery Christmas!!
merry christmas hope you are doing well !!
Good of you to try such a hard task not the easiest cake to bake well done
Hi, Xenia! I hope you are safe and sound there. Missiong your peaceful videos - just post anything: your home, town, family...
Hi Xenia, you did a great job. Molasses is a sweet paste made of pitted brown dates or sugarcane.. Merry Xmas and a happy Novi Godom.
So glad to see you back 🎉 Happy Christmas and happy New years!
A trick to mesure 250ml of butter is to take a 500ml measuring cup, pour 250ml of water in it, and add butter chunks until the water is at the 500ml mark. You can thank Archimedes for this 😊
Just use scales. It's easy and precise
@@stephaniegilcher4577 of course, but the problem is that 99% of the recipes I use don’t list the weight of the ingredients.
Ha, ha, ha. That was so entertaining! Merry Christmas!
As long as it tastes good then its not a fail. 😂
Merry Christmas Ksenia.
Cake looks good! 👍
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Ksenia! I enjoyed seeing you making this recipe which I have never heard of. I could almost smell it though when you took it out of the oven. We use the metric system in Canada but still use cups and measuring spoons. You did a great job. We still have Christmas fruit cake at our house and there are many similar recipes to this one -- all very rich and special. Greetings of the season to you from Canada.
Oh this video was wonderful, I loved how you improvised with different ingredients. Thanks so much!
Butter in the US is often sold in sticks. 1 stick is uqual to a half of a cup and there are marks on the packaging that show you where to cut for smaller amounts.
Merry Christmas Ksenia! I'm so glad that you're back. I'm not a big fan of alcohol or foods with that flavor, so I probably wouldn't be a big fan of this kind of cake either. I did enjoy watching you make it though. In the USA, sticks of butter have lines printed on the paper so that you can cut how much you need. It's marked in tablespoons and cups! I'm excited to see more videos of your life.
Merry Christmas and best wishes for the new year!
Merry Christmas USA SC
Nice site, don’t worry we in Manchester U.K. would welcome here. You could bake a cake for us. Take care. Alan and Tatiana.
Merry Christmas Kseniya 😊
What a great idea. Thank you...
🌨☃️🎄Merry Christmas, dear Ksenia, and the cake came out surprisingly well I think! You did a great job! 🎄☃️🌨 Nice to meet you again, and I hope that everything is fine with your family. Best wishes for the future, and I'm sending you a big warm hug from me here in Sweden. Take care ❤!
Hi! Merry Christmas! Thank you for the lovely video! Wishing you health and happiness in the new year!! ❤
So nice to see you back! What a fun video. Merry Christmas! Hugs to you from Kansas 🌻🎄🎊
A late Merry Christmas Ksenyia, but a Very Happy New Year to you and Your family.....Respect and peace from the Republic of Ireland.....🍻👍
Ksenia, I was following your channel way prior to the World problems cropping up..again..It is Christmas here in NC and and I am about to cook supper and go to bed, big work day tomorrow. I'm considering this vid a Christmas present I didn't see coming. Be safe and stay happy, Love!
The more you eat the better it gets ...LOL
Yummy put some frosting on it ...
that looks spectacular ! thank you
Loved your cake video, nice job.Happy Holidays Ksenia
Video more often. You have fans around the world
Merry Christmas Ksenia! Never heard of that cake, and I'm from Scotland. Wow, that was a challenge for you, maybe taking US recipe did not help! It was a great video though and very funny. Ideal for watching after Christmas Dinner. Glad it came out well at the end and the taste is what matters, not the outside look. How long will it take you to eat all of it! Happy New Year to you and hope next year is a good one for you.
Ksenia happy to see you! Merry Christmas to you and a Happy New Year that promises peace for all!
Merry Christmas to you and your family, great new year as well.
Long time no see. Was worried about your safety.
Always better the next day 😂fair play to you and have a merry Christmas ❤
When I saw the result of your effort to duplicate the Welsh recipe....something popped into my head !.... I thought of Kseniia's Comical Kitchen Cookery lessons ! Thanks for this video ! It was entertaining for me....and I'm sure that it's taste was acceptable ! I would have liked to have tried it myself ! Enjoy the rest of your Christmas and have a GREAT New year ! Love from Australia 🦘🇦🇺🌹🍷🧑🎄
Merry Christmas. So good to see you.
Thanks for the cake, off to PayPal for support. Pat W