Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, christmas fruit cake. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Christmas fruit cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Christmas fruit cake is something that I have loved my whole life.
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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook christmas fruit cake using 23 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas fruit cake:
- Get Ingredients to soak:
- Get 100 gm raisins
- Get 150 gm chopped dates
- Prepare 150 gm chopped mixed berries
- Make ready 100 gm chopped crystallized ginger
- Make ready 150 gm tutti frutti
- Get 25 gm dried sultana’s
- Get 180-200 ml fruit juice or alcohol of your choice
- Make ready Ingredients for Cake:
- Prepare 275 gm All Purpose flour
- Make ready 275 gm Softened salted butter
- Get 275 gm Granulated brown sugar
- Take 75 gm Almond powder
- Prepare 40 gm Chopped Pistachios
- Take 40 gm Chopped Cashew nut
- Get 5 Eggs
- Get 1/4 teaspoon Nutmeg
- Get Cinnamon 1 small stick
- Prepare Cloves 7-8
- Prepare 7-8 Black pepper corn
- Take Soaked dried fruits
- Make ready Zest of orange or fresh orange pulp
- Prepare Loaf tin 9X4 inch with the capacity of 1.5 liters
Although I try to visit my mom in the Philippines at least twice a year, I am not always able to take the trip around the holidays. Christmastime is a busy season for us, food bloggers, and I usually spend the last quarter of the year cooped up at home, testing and developing new content for the blog. The secret to the fruit cake according to Virginia Living Magazine is the Cuban fruitcake uses a light hand on the spices and gives the cake enough time to age in rum. Order fruitcake online from Red Truck Bakery.
Instructions to make Christmas fruit cake:
- Take a glass jar and soak all chopped dried fruits in alcohol or fruit juice. - I have used apple juice here, you can use orange juice, cranberry juice or grape juice. - If using alcohol, preferred is rum or you can also use brandy, whisky or vodka.Ensure dried fruits are chopped well (approx. ½ cm in size). This is important for even cake. - Do take a good shake after you pour juice or alcohol in the dried fruits & let them soak for at least 1 week or 2 day.
- First of all prepare loaf tin. Grease tin with butter and line with parchment paper. Line outer side of the tin with aluminum foil strap to restrict too much heat. - Ground dried spices (nutmeg/cinnamon/black pepper & cloves) into the fine powder. - Now take a big bowl and start whisking softened butter using hand whisk till smooth and fluffy (avoid electric beater). - Mix brown sugar and whisk again till everything is mixed well.
- Start adding eggs one at a time and whisk. - After adding all eggs, incorporate orange pulp, almond powder and powdered spices using spatula. Do not use whisk here. - Now it’s time to sieve all-purpose flour in the cake batter and fold using spatula.
- After folding flour, now its time to add soaked dried fruits, chopped pistachios and cashew nuts in the batter. Do strain soaked fruits once but do not throw away this juice as we will use it to feed our cake later.
- Batter is ready to go in the lined loaf tin. - With the help of serving spoon, fill the load tin with batter, push to the corner and level it properly. - Preheat your oven on 150 degree Celsius and bake the cake for approx. 3 & ½ hours on 150 degree Celsius. - In my oven it took me 4 hours 15 minutes to bake my cake to the perfection. Do ensure to check your cake after 3 hours every 15 min by inserting skewer or knife to check if it is done or not.
- Once cake is completely cool, demold carefully, poke hole using a skewer and feed your cake using remaining juice of the soaked dried fruits. And keep on feeding the cake one or twice a day using alcohol or fruits juice. This helps cake remain moist and gives beautiful deep flavor to the cake. - Cover your cake with aluminum foil and parchment paper and keep it in the room temperature. Do not keep this cake in the refrigerator. Shelf life of this cake is more than a month.Enjoy this lovely cake :)
- Cover your cake with aluminum foil and parchment paper and keep it in the room temperature. Do not keep this cake in the refrigerator. Shelf life of this cake is more than a month.Enjoy this lovely cake :)
The secret to the fruit cake according to Virginia Living Magazine is the Cuban fruitcake uses a light hand on the spices and gives the cake enough time to age in rum. Order fruitcake online from Red Truck Bakery. 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. But Mama's a Southern Baptist, so drinkin's a sin.
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