Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, rich fruit cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Rich Fruit Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Rich Fruit Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
Sift the flour, spices, cocoa powder and ½ tsp salt together. Mix a third of this mixture into the soaked fruit. The success of this deliciously rich, moist cake lies in soaking the dried mixed fruits in strong dark tea the evening before; the tea adds a subtle depth of flavor to the cake.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook rich fruit cake using 15 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Rich Fruit Cake:
- Prepare 1 . 1 Cups golden Raisin
- Take 2.1 Cups Raisin black
- Get 3.1 Cups Apricot chopped dried
- Make ready 4.1/2 Cup dates chopped
- Make ready 5.1/2 Cup ginger peel
- Make ready 6.1/2 Cup Orange peel
- Prepare 7.1/2 Cup Cherry dried
- Prepare 4 Tablespoons brandy
- Make ready 1 Cup butter
- Make ready 1 Cup brown sugar
- Take 4 eggs
- Make ready 13/4 Cups all purpose flour
- Prepare 1 Teaspoon baking powder
- Prepare 1/2 Cup grape juice
- Make ready 1/2 Teaspoon Cinnamon powder
A rich fruit cake or fruitcake recipe is a perfect blend of fruit and nuts in a cake batter that uses brown sugar as a base. Flavored with warm spices such as ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves or cardamom. Traditionally alcohol was used to ripen the cake but orange juice works just as well. The blend of these ingredients together creates a.
Instructions to make Rich Fruit Cake:
- Place the ingredients 1 to 7 in a jar(i used small bharani) and stir in the brandy and grape jiuce. Cover and keep aside for 20 days stirring occasionally.
- Pre-heat oven to 300F / 150C. i used an 8 inch pan.
- Transfer the soaked dry fruits on a clean counter surface and sprinkle 2 tbsp or two of flour over it. Toss to coat well. This prevents the fruit from sinking to the bottom of the cake while baking.
- Sift the remaining flour, cinnamon powder and baking powder together well.
- In a separate bowl cream the butter and sugar together until the mixtures is creamy and now beat the eggs into it 1 at a time.
- Add in the flour mixture to it an fold it.
- Add fruit mixture to butter mixture and fold until combined.
- Spoon the cake batter into the prepared tins till half full and smooth the surface making a slight depression in the center with the back of the spoon.
- Bake for 2 to 2 1/2 hours or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
- Drizzle remaining 2 tablespoons brandy over cake while still hot. Allow the cake to cool completely. Remove cake from pan and dust with icing sugar. Serve.
These fruit loaves will keep well in a tin (although I often give one to a friend) and a slice is delicious with cheese. MINI CHRISTMAS CAKE GIFTS A rich fruit cake does take a while to cook as it needs to be baked at a fairly low temperature. Sometimes they have a tendency to become a little dry around the edges and overcooked before the centre is ready. It's a traditional cake for weddings, birthdays and Christmas in Australia. Although I submitted the original recipe, I personally would soak the fruit for a day or two in port or brandy before I baked the cake, as I like a really moist and boozy fruit cake.
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