Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, christmas fruit cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Christmas fruit cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Christmas fruit cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
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. These Christmas fruitcake recipes will have you thinking about holiday desserts in a whole new Forget everything you thought you felt about fruitcake.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have christmas fruit cake using 23 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas fruit cake:
- Prepare Ingredients to soak:
- Get 100 gm raisins
- Prepare 150 gm chopped dates
- Get 150 gm chopped mixed berries
- Take 100 gm chopped crystallized ginger
- Prepare 150 gm tutti frutti
- Make ready 25 gm dried sultana’s
- Make ready 180-200 ml fruit juice or alcohol of your choice
- Make ready Ingredients for Cake:
- Take 275 gm All Purpose flour
- Take 275 gm Softened salted butter
- Make ready 275 gm Granulated brown sugar
- Prepare 75 gm Almond powder
- Take 40 gm Chopped Pistachios
- Get 40 gm Chopped Cashew nut
- Take 5 Eggs
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon Nutmeg
- Take Cinnamon 1 small stick
- Make ready Cloves 7-8
- Make ready 7-8 Black pepper corn
- Prepare Soaked dried fruits
- Prepare Zest of orange or fresh orange pulp
- Take Loaf tin 9X4 inch with the capacity of 1.5 liters
The fruits get soaked in the hot water and turn soft. A classic Christmas fruit cake, the English style is indeed a nice kind of cake to have for the holidays. If it wasn't this huge drawback of having to make it so much in advance and then think about wrapping. Bake this festive fruit cake in advance of Christmas and feed it regularly with rum, brandy or whisky to build the flavour and keep it moist.
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 :)
Try sponge instead of fruit cake this Christmas. We cannot think about Christmas without Christmas Cake! The specialty of Christmas Cake is the cake is loaded with dry fruits and nuts. Traditionally, the dry fruits are soaked in alcohol for almost a. Fruit cake is a traditional Christmas cake recipe loaded with dry fruits with a hint of rum flavor.
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