Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, christmas fruit cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Christmas Fruit cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Christmas Fruit cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
In a large bowl, combine the nuts, dates and cherries. Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt; add to nut mixture, stirring until nuts and fruit are well coated. Cover tightly, and store at room temperature.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have christmas fruit cake using 15 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Fruit cake:
- Prepare 220 Gram All purpose flour
- Take 220 Gram Muscavado dark sugar
- Prepare 220 Gram Butter
- Make ready 800 Gram Mixed fruits and raisins
- Make ready 50 gram almond powder
- Take 1 tbsp treacle
- Take 3 large eggs
- Make ready 1 pack Marzipan ready to roll
- Prepare 1 pack ready to roll fondant
- Take 1 pack decorating stars edible
- Prepare 85 ml Brandy
- Take 1 lemon zest
- Get 1 orange zest
- Get Few almonds as topping
- Take Apricot jam
I always enjoy eating it with a glass of red wine or even a cup of espresso. This fruit Cake has a wonderful fragrant aroma and is light, crumbly, moist and too delicious with notes of rum in it. This lovely fragrant spiced fruit cake is made with both whole wheat flour (atta) and all-purpose flour (maida). The recipe used a mix of dry fruits and nuts.
Instructions to make Christmas Fruit cake:
- In a large bowl with mixed dried fruit, Add the brandy and give a good mix. Then cover with clingfilm and soak for 3 nights in the fridge.
- On the fourth day(after 3 nights of soaking mixed fruits in brandy), Grease and line a 20cm cake tin, preferably with a removable base.
- Preheat the oven to 150°C.
- With an electric mixer, beat the butter with the sugar and black treacle until paler and fluffy. Gradually add the eggs, beating each one at a time.
- Add the flour and mix with spatula. I don't use electric mixer for the flour.
- Now add the mixed fruits, almond powder. It might look a bit messy at this point but that's how it would be.
- Pour into the pan. Top it with almonds. This will help for good appearance Incase we don't have time to decorate later!
- Cover the pan with parchment paper to overturn the top layer. Keep the pan in oven for 3 hours at 140 *C
- Switch off oven. Allow cake to cool down.
- Keep in airtight container.
- On the day of decorating, knead the marzipan and roll it over. I did according to Waitrose video on YouTube.
- You need 2 TSP apricot jam a bit heated to apply on cake so that marzipan sticks to it.
- 12 hours after marzipan dried, I applied the fondant icing similar to how marzipan was kneaded, rolled and stuck on cake. Cut out the edges.
- Then stick the edible stars
- Keep in airtight cake container until ready to display.
You can use your choice of dry fruits also. When the cake is cold wrap in double greaseproof paper and store in an airtight tin. First poke little holes in the cake with a knitting needle or a skewer. Then line the bottom and sides with baking parchment. The baking parchment should come up higher than the top of the tin.
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