Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, fruit cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Fruit cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Fruit cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
Fruitcake (or fruit cake or fruit bread) is a cake made with candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and optionally soaked in spirits. Fragrant spices, nuts, dried fruit, and plenty of rum make fruitcake a special treat. We've got dozens of wonderful fruitcake recipes.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have fruit cake using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Fruit cake:
- Make ready 150 ml brandy or rum
- Make ready 500 g dried fruit
- Get 100 g glace cherries
- Prepare 250 g brown sugar
- Get 175 g butter/margarine
- Get 250 g All purpose flour
- Take 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Make ready 1 teaspoon mixed spice
- Make ready 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- Get 3 large eggs
Traditionally made months in advance of a celebration, like Christmas or a wedding, cakes with fruit soaked in alcohol, are festive. Either way, this fruit cake is a welcome addition to the holiday table. This easy Christmas fruitcake is perfect for the holidays. It's light, tender, and full of dried fruits and nuts.
Instructions to make Fruit cake:
- Pour dried mixed fruit into a bowl then pour over brandy/rum. Allow to soak for at least 6 hours.
- When ready to bake, set oven to 180 degrees centigrade. Butter an 8inch pan and dust with flour.
- In a saucepan, put butter, sugar, 150ml rum or brandy (water can be used as an alternative) and mixed fruits. Set on medium heat to simmer for 10 minutes. Cool for 15 minutes.
- Beat eggs and pour into sugar/fruit mixture. Stir. Add baking powder and mixed spice into flour. Pour into sugar fruit mixture and stir until mixed in.
- Leave cake in the pan to cool for at least 20 minutes. Turn out from pan and allow to cool. Wrap cake and feed with brandy once a week.
- Spoon batter into pan and bake until cake is done (when a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean)
A Christmas cake that dates back to ancient Rome!! This is my own fruitcake recipe and it's a family favorite. The mixture of fruits and nuts helps make it a tasty treat. Holiday Fruitcake Recipe photo by Taste of Home. THE BEST RICH FRUIT CAKE RECIPE - PERFECT FOR CHRISTMAS A rich fruit cake is a perfect blend of fruit and nuts in a cake batter that uses brown sugar as a base.
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