Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, light fruit cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Light Fruit Cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Light Fruit Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
This is a light fruit cake that is excellent for a wedding cake. Light Fruit Cake: If desired, in a bowl combine the candied mixed peel, cherries, and dark raisins. Stir in the alcohol, cover, and let sit at room temperature at least a day (up to two days).
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook light fruit cake using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Light Fruit Cake:
- Make ready 3/4 cup (120 grams) candied mixed peel
- Make ready 1/2 cup (100 grams) candied red or green cherries (cut into quarters)
- Prepare 1/3 cup (40 grams) dark raisins
- Prepare 2-3 tablespoons Grand Marnier, rum, brandy, or sherry (optional)
- Make ready 1/2 cup (113 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature
- Prepare 1/2 cup (100 grams) granulated white sugar
- Make ready 3 large eggs, room temperature
- Get 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- Get 1/4 teaspoon pure almond extract
- Get 1 1/2 cups (195 grams) all-purpose flour
- Make ready 1/2 cup (50 grams) ground almonds (almond meal/flour)
- Take 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Make ready 1/4 teaspoons salt
- Take Zest of one small lemon (outer skin)
- Get 1/4 cup (60 ml) milk (whole or reduced fat)
- Make ready Some flaked almonds for decoration
How To Make Light Fruit Cake. Grease and line the cake tin (pan) with baking parchment. Boil a kettle and soak the fruit while you prepare the other ingredients. Mix the dry ingredients, beat in the butter.
Steps to make Light Fruit Cake:
- In a large bowl, combine candied mixed peel, cherries, and dark raisins. Mix well. Stir in the brandy to coat the fruit. Cover tightly with plastic wrap. Let stand at room temperature at least 1 day(up to 2 days) to macerate the fruit, stirring occasionally.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C), with the oven rack in the center of the oven. Butter, or spray with a nonstick vegetable spray, a 9 x 5 x 3 inch (23 x 13 x 8 cm) loaf pan.
- In a separate bowl, whisk dried ingredients together the flour, baking powder, salt, and lemon zest.
- In a large bowl of stand mixer and using the paddle attachment, beat the butter until creamy. Gradually add the sugar and beat until mixture is light and creamy. Beat in the egg one at a time, beating well after each addition and scraping the sides of the bowl with a spatula to ensure ingredients are all incorporated. Beat 1 additional minute.
- Beat in the extracts. Add the candied and dried fruits, along with any juices, and beat until incorporated. Beat in half the flour mixture just until incorporated. Add almond flour, then beat in the milk and then the remaining flour mixture. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and, if desired, decorate the top of the cake with flaked almonds.
- Bake for about 60 - 70 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cover with a piece of aluminum foil if you find the cake is browning too much! Remove the cake from the oven. - Let it cool down in the baking tin. Cut into slices and serve.
Combine the eggs, milk and vanilla extract and beat into the mixture. Strain the fruit and fold into the cake mix. Combine the mixed dried fruit (including pineapple and currants) and crystallized ginger in a large bowl. Some dried fruits have a very light coating of vegetable oil on them which can cause them to slip to the bottom of a cake as it is baking. We are the UK's number one food brand.
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