Chocolate Christmas Fruit Cake
Chocolate Christmas Fruit Cake

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Chocolate Christmas Fruit Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Chocolate Christmas Fruit Cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

This chocolate fruit cake is a fun twist on the classic Christmas dessert. It's packed with flavor from rich chocolate, cranberries, figs, and apricots. This chocolate fruit cake is a little out of my comfort zone - but I just had to give it a try. Place the prunes, sultanas, raisins, butter, sugar, honey, baileys, coffee, orange zest and juice, cinnamon, nutmeg and cocoa in a medium pot on the stove.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chocolate christmas fruit cake using 17 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Christmas Fruit Cake:
  1. Take 2 cups chopped Dry Fruits of your choice (Dates, Prunes, Cranberries, Figs, Raisins, Sultanas, Apricots)
  2. Prepare 1 cup Dark Rum (Whisky, Sherry or Brandy will also do)
  3. Take 250 grams Black raisins
  4. Take 250 grams Dried soft prunes
  5. Prepare 1/4 cup Honey
  6. Make ready 2 Oranges, zest and juice
  7. Make ready 1 teaspoon Mixed spice- (cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg)
  8. Prepare 2 tablespoons Cocoa powder
  9. Make ready 3 tablespoons Grape Juice
  10. Prepare 3/4 cup Butter
  11. Make ready 3/4 cup Dark brown sugar
  12. Prepare 3 medium Eggs
  13. Take 1 1/4 cups All purpose Flour
  14. Prepare 1/2 cup Ground almonds (with or without skin)-
  15. Get 1/2 teaspoon Baking powder
  16. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
  17. Prepare pinch Salt

Method for making Chocolate Fruit Cake. Sieve flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon powder, clove powder and nutmeg powder. In a large bowl, cream the softened butter for a minute. Wrap a few layers of newspaper around the outside and secure with string.

Instructions to make Chocolate Christmas Fruit Cake:
  1. In a clean, dry glass jar, add the chopped dry fruits and the rum and mix well together with a wooden spoon. Seal the jar and keep in a cool, dry place away from sunlight. Every 2-3 days, give the fruit a mix and add about ¼ cup more rum if it looks too dry. You can soak the dry fruits for 1 – 4 weeks before you bake the cake.
  2. Reheat the oven to 150 degrees for 10 minutes. In a broad pan, add the raisins and chopped prunes. Add butter, mixed spice powder, dark brown sugar, honey, orange zest from 2 oranges and orange juice from 1 and 1/2 orange add remaining half at-last if needed.
  3. Add cocoa powder, grape juice and bring the mixture to boil in low flame. It takes about 5-8 minutes to start the mixture to bubble. Once the bubbles start to appear on the edges, switch off the gas and allow the mixture to cool for about 30 minutes. Prepare the cake tin by lining bottom and the sides of the cake. To protect the top of the cake from burning keep the side little larger the tin.
  4. In a blender jar, add the blanched or whole almonds and make a powder. In a separate bowl add the all purpose flour, ground almonds, baking powder, baking soda and salt together and mix with a whisk to combine well. After around 30 minutes, once the mixture has cooled a little, add the beaten eggs. Now add this flour almond mix into the fruit mixture and mix with a spatula until the ingredients have combined.
  5. If you feel the batter is thick drizzle little orange juice now to loosen the batter. Carefully pour the fruit cake mixture into the lined 20 cm with minimum of 7-8 cm height cake tin. Cover the cake tin with another wax paper on top to prevent the sides from burning. Transfer the cake tin to the oven and bake for around 1 and 3/4 to 2 hours, or until the top of the cake is firm. If you insert a sharp knife into the middle of the cake the knife should come out clean.
  6. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

In a large bowl, cream the softened butter for a minute. Wrap a few layers of newspaper around the outside and secure with string. Taste it at its mellow best by baking the Pampepato a week or more before serving. Top this amaretto-flavored fruitcake with a jam glaze or a thick layer of royal icing for a beautiful finish. Get the recipe at Something Sweet Something Savoury.

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