Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, christmas fruit cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Gourmet Food Gifts, Christmas Gifts, Holiday Gifts, Thanksgiving, Birthday for Men and Women, Corporate Gifts. 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).
Christmas Fruit Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Christmas Fruit Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have christmas fruit cake using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Fruit Cake:
- Make ready 225 grams butter
- Make ready 200 grams brown sugar
- Get 2 teaspoons orange zest
- Take 1 tablespoon treacle syrup
- Make ready 3 eggs
- Take 275 grams plain flour
- Take 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon powder
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon ginger powder
- Take 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- Take 1/4 teaspoon soda bi carb
- Get 2 tbsp milk
- Get 50 grams glazed cherries
- Make ready 50 grams raisins
- Prepare 50 grams sultanas
- Prepare 100 grams dates
- Make ready 50 grams tutti frutti
- Get 25 grams almonds
- Get 25 grams cashew nuts
This easy Christmas Cake is a traditional fruit cake with a rich, velvety texture that's so full flavoured and moist it can be eaten plain. Christmas fruitcake - one hundred year old family recipe. I shared this Fruitcake recipe fours years ago but it continues to be one of my most popular posts. If you've never liked fruitcake in the past, this recipe will change your mind.
Steps to make Christmas Fruit Cake:
- Mix and sieve plain flour, cinnamon powder, ginger powder, nutmeg and soda bi carb in a bowl.
- Chop all the dry fruits and add 1 tbsp plain flour to it and mix it very well so that it doesn't sink to the bottom of the cake while baking.
- In a bowl take butter which is kept at room temperature and brown sugar and beat it with the help of an electric beater or with a whisk until creamy. Now and orange zest and treacle syrup to it and beat it again. You can add dark caramel syrup instead of treacle syrup. Now add eggs one by one and keep on beating. Do not add all the eggs at one time.
- Now add flour mix little by little to it and mix everything well with the help of a spatula. Add milk and mix everything well.
- Now add prepared dry fruits to it and mix everything well. Grease and line 9 inch baking tin and add the prepared fruit cake mixture to it and level it. I have used 5.5 inch round tin and a medium size bread loaf tin here.
- Bake the cake in the preheated oven at 160 degree for 1 hour. If the tins are small, then it will be baked in one hour but if you are using 9 inch tin then after 1 hour reduce the oven temperature to 150 degree and bake it for another 30 minutes until done. Now take out the cake tin and leave it for 5 minutes then take it out from the tin and put it on the wire rack and let it cool down completely.
- Cut and store the fruit cake in an airtight container.
I shared this Fruitcake recipe fours years ago but it continues to be one of my most popular posts. If you've never liked fruitcake in the past, this recipe will change your mind. If you make it in the next few days, it will be ready for. A very very rich fruitcake.perfect for Christmas, just remember, the longer it sits in the tin, the tastier it will be. Beat in the eggs one at a time, scraping the bowl after each addition.
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