Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, celebration (xmas) fruit cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Great recipe for Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake. A recipe I have developed over a few years. This has been used for Weddings, Christenings as well as Christmas and other celebrations.
Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook celebration (xmas) fruit cake using 21 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake:
- Get Dry Stuff
- Get 350 grams Plain Flour
- Take 2 teaspoon Cinnamon
- Get 2 teaspoons Mixed Spice
- Take Fruits
- Prepare 110 grams Chopped Candied Peel
- Make ready 110 grams Glacé Cherries, cut in half
- Prepare 2 Lemons Grated rind of
- Get 2 Oranges, Grated rind of
- Prepare 1 Kilogram Dried Fruits, (500grams sultanas, 500grams Seedless Raisins)
- Take Nuts (Optional!!)
- Prepare 110 grams Almonds
- Take 110 grams Walnuts
- Get 110 grams Hazelnuts
- Prepare Wet Stuff
- Prepare 4 large or 5 medium Eggs
- Take 2 tablespoons Brandy/Rum Or Milk !
- Get Sticky Stuff
- Make ready 300 grams Butter (or best Margarine)
- Prepare 300 grams Moist Dark Brown Sugar
- Get 3 level tablespoons Black Treacle(or Golden Syrup)
If you want a fruitcake in the near future, these quick fruitcake recipes will have you eating homemade fruitcake in no time. Leave the cake to cool in the tin on a wire rack for an hour, then remove from the tin and leave to cool completely. This feeding should be repeated every two weeks up until Christmas. After posting my guide on how to soak fruits for a Christmas Cake I have followed up with this recipe for baking the rich Christmas fruit cake.
Instructions to make Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake:
- Prepare tins as follows. Double layer of grease proof paper, draw around the bottom of your tin. Grease paper, then cut to draw line, fit to bottom of tin.
- Double layer of grease proof paper, enough to go around sides of tin. Grease and fit to sides of tin, overlapping the bottom layer
- In a very large pan or bowl, mix all the dried fruits, rind of oranges and lemons, candied peel, cherries. Plus all the various nuts. Mix until evenly distributed.
- In a bowl, cream the butter, sugar and Black Treacle together.
- In another bowl, put the plain flour, cinnamon, mixed spices and salt. Use a whisk to gently mix it all until even.
- Break the eggs into a measuring jug or large cup, add Brandy/ Rum or milk and whisk lightly.
- Adding a little at a time, add egg mix and flour mix to the butter- sugar mix and combine until all has been used and smooth.
- Add this mix into the fruit- nut mix in the large bowl, mixing until everything is coated and even. The mix should be sticky and not very wet.
- Adding a bit at a time, put mix into your selected tins to 3/4 full. Dip your hand into a bowl of clean water and smooth down the cake mix, until raised slightly at the sides, gentle dip in the middle. (The cake will rise more in the center and you will end up with a level top!) Don’t worry if there is a small puddle, this will stop the top burning!
- Cook in a moderate oven(mark3. 160C. 325deg) for about 1 1/2 hours. Then turn down heat to Mark1-2, 140-150 C, 275-300deg, for a further two hours.
- Leave in tin about 30 minutes to cool. Then take out of the tin gently, into a wire rack to finish cooling completely before taking off the paper.
- This cake can be stored in an air-tight container for several weeks, or frozen, if required!
- If keeping for Xmas, a little Brandy or Rum, dribbled over the top, after piercing with a cocktail stick, after a month or so, then reseal.
Chop pineapple, apricots and dates into pieces the same size as the Brazil nuts, leave nuts whole, combine fruit and nuts in a large bowl. Beat eggs in a bowl until thick and creamy, add sugar, essence, rum and softened butter, beat until well combined. For the cake, place all the dried fruit, including the cherries, into a large mixing bowl, pour over the brandy and stir in the orange zest. Cover with clingfilm and leave to soak for three days. Fruitcake (or fruit cake or fruit bread) is a cake made with candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and optionally soaked in spirits.
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