Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, fruit cake / christmas cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
How to make a rich Fruit and Nut - Plum Cake. Christmas Cakes usually need to be started the day before, with overnight soaking of dried fruit. 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. This Christmas cake is absolutely wonderful.
Fruit cake / Christmas cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Fruit cake / Christmas cake is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have fruit cake / christmas cake using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Fruit cake / Christmas cake:
- Prepare 1 kg dried fruit - a mix of raisins, sultanas, prunes, figs, cherries, cranberries
- Take Zest and juice of 1 orange
- Get Zest and juice of 1 (unwaxed) lemon (use 2 if they are small/ medium sized)
- Take 150 ml strong black tea + a few more spoonfuls for ‘feeding’
- Get 250 g butter
- Take 100 g light brown sugar
- Get 175 g plain flour
- Get 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 100 g ground almonds
- Make ready 100 g flaked almonds
- Prepare 75-100 g walnut pieces
- Make ready 2 tsp mixed spice
- Take 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- Take 1/2 tsp ground cloves
- Take 4 large eggs
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
See more ideas about fruit cake christmas, fruit cake, fruitcake recipes. Moist Christmas Fruit Cake - super flavorful fruit cake recipe that is moist and sure to please this holiday season, get the recipe. They are a tradition and are so delicious and different. You can bake a few weeks before christmas, soak in brandy.
Instructions to make Fruit cake / Christmas cake:
- Prepare the tin. Use a 20cm cake tin and double line with baking paper. Then line the outside too.
- In a large heavy pan, put the fruits, lemon and orange zest and juice, the tea, the butter and the sugar. Heat on medium until boiling. Lower the heat, cover and simmer for 5 mins.
- Leave the fruit mix to cool. Quickest way is to empty the pan onto a roasting tray or you can also put in a bowl.
- Preheat oven to 150C.
- In a large bowl, mix the dry ingredients.
- Add the fruit and eggs and vanilla. Stir until well combined.
- Pour the mix into the cake tin. Smooth the top. Cook for about 2 hours.
- When the cake is ready, use a skewer to make a few holes in the top. Spoon in about 3 tbsp of black tea (this is ‘feeding’ the cake). Leave to cool.
- Enjoy 😋
- Ready to serve and ENJOY!
They are a tradition and are so delicious and different. You can bake a few weeks before christmas, soak in brandy. But i love the cake made a week. Christmas cake and fruitcake often refer to the same thing: a cake with lots of candied dried fruits in them, a spicy-sweet flavor profile, and the presence of an alcohol such as rum. However, the American version of fruitcake often differs significantly from British Christmas cake, which is typically a moist.
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