Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, christmas fruit cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Christmas fruit cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Christmas fruit cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
It's a shame that fruitcake as a species gets such a bad rap. With its two key ingredients–rum and butter–it ought to be a hit. This recipe includes dried cherries, mango, cranberries, and currants soaked in rum overnight (a week or a month or more is even better). After it's baked, it ages in cheesecloth with additional splashes of rum.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook christmas fruit cake using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas fruit cake:
- Make ready 1 cup whole wheat flour
- Take 3/4 cup semolina
- Get 2 Tbs cocoa powder
- Take 1 tsp baking powder
- Take 1 tsp baking soda
- Prepare 1 tsp cinnamon powder
- Get 1 tsp dry ginger powder
- Get 1 cup powder sugar
- Take 1 cup curd
- Take 100 gm oil
- Make ready 1/2 cup mixed berries
- Take 1/4 cup Chopped dates
- Take 1/2 cup Chopped mixed dry fruits (almond, grapes and walnuts)
- Take 1 cup orange juice
- Make ready Pinch salt
But if you really want to make it special, serve it with custard. In a large bowl, combine the nuts, dates and cherries. Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt; add to nut mixture, stirring until nuts and fruit are well coated. Fear not: this moist, dark cake is loaded with yummy-tasting dried fruits, not the icky, bitter candied peel and citron you remember from visiting your grandma at Christmas.
Steps to make Christmas fruit cake:
- In a bowl soak all dry fruits and berries in orange juice. Rest for 3 to 4 hours(or microwave for 2 mins for instant).
- Now mix all dry ingredients. Then mix all wet ingredients.
- Now drain orange juice from fruits. Mix the fruits in dry ingredients. So it coated nicely.
- Add orange juice and the wet mixture into the dry mixture. Mix it properly. Transfer in the greased tray. Add the chopped walnuts on top. Bake it in preheated(180° for 10 mins) oven for 30 minutes at 180°. It depends on your oven. So please adjust the timings according to your oven.
Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt; add to nut mixture, stirring until nuts and fruit are well coated. Fear not: this moist, dark cake is loaded with yummy-tasting dried fruits, not the icky, bitter candied peel and citron you remember from visiting your grandma at Christmas. The dried fruits suggested below are simply that — suggestions. The holiday season presents a prickly moral dilemma for my mother. Her signature dessert is a meticulously faithful execution of Great-Aunt Margaret's Christmas fruitcake recipe, which must be soaked in peach brandy.
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