Eunice Power's Christmas Cake Buns

These delicious buttery spicy buns are a real quick fix for Christmas. They are a huge hit as a gift or just to have at home with a few friends for your elevens’s.

I bake these all the time in December, for coffee mornings, teachers’ gifts, or just as a thank you to the many people who help me out throughout the year.

They are made in minutes and remembered for months!

Christmas Cake Buns

215g butter at room temperature
215g dark brown sugar
4 free range eggs
215g self-raising flour
1 tsp mixed spice
215g sultanas, soaked in ½ glass of whiskey or brandy overnight.
100g cherries, halved

Preheat the oven to 170°C

Cream butter and sugar. Sieve flour and mixed spice. Add eggs, one at a time, add a table spoon of flour after each egg.

Add the fruit. Mix well. Put mixture in bun cases and bake for 20 minutes.

Sieve icing sugar over warm buns and serve

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More recipes from Eunice Power are available on www.eunicepower.com

Room reservations can be made on www.powersfield.com - hope to see you in Dungarvan during the year.

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Eunice Power is a professional chef with over twenty years experience in the hospitality business. She runs Powersfield House in Dungarvan County Waterford, which is our B&B of the Year for 2012 and also the winner of the Best B&B Breakfast. Her philosophy is to use fresh, seasonal, locally produced food, sourced organically where possible.

Eunice has a successful outside catering company, writes about food (she is the author of an excellent cookery book written for local company Waterford Stanley) and teaches at Paul Flynn’s Tannery Cooking School, where her enthusiasm and zest for a life filled with good food are given free rein."