Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, chocolate christmas fruit cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Chocolate 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 easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Chocolate Christmas Fruit Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chocolate christmas fruit cake using 17 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Christmas Fruit Cake:
- Take 2 cups chopped Dry Fruits of your choice (Dates, Prunes, Cranberries, Figs, Raisins, Sultanas, Apricots)
- Take 1 cup Dark Rum (Whisky, Sherry or Brandy will also do)
- Prepare 250 grams Black raisins
- Take 250 grams Dried soft prunes
- Take 1/4 cup Honey
- Get 2 Oranges, zest and juice
- Get 1 teaspoon Mixed spice- (cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg)
- Take 2 tablespoons Cocoa powder
- Prepare 3 tablespoons Grape Juice
- Get 3/4 cup Butter
- Make ready 3/4 cup Dark brown sugar
- Make ready 3 medium Eggs
- Get 1 1/4 cups All purpose Flour
- Take 1/2 cup Ground almonds (with or without skin)-
- Get 1/2 teaspoon Baking powder
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
- Make ready pinch Salt
Are you as excited as I am?? I honestly hope that you're enjoying the season, that your gifts are wrapped, your tree is up, you've watched at least a couple of Christmas movies and you're getting ready for a. Chocolate Christmas Cake, also known as Panforte Italian Christmas Cake, is an easy to make Christmas dessert, with maple syrup, nuts, dark chocolate, cocoa, spices, and dried fruit. A Christmas cake that's both vegan and paleo friendly with a rich chewy toffee-like texture.
Steps to make Chocolate Christmas Fruit Cake:
- In a clean, dry glass jar, add the chopped dry fruits and the rum and mix well together with a wooden spoon. Seal the jar and keep in a cool, dry place away from sunlight. Every 2-3 days, give the fruit a mix and add about ¼ cup more rum if it looks too dry. You can soak the dry fruits for 1 – 4 weeks before you bake the cake.
- Reheat the oven to 150 degrees for 10 minutes. In a broad pan, add the raisins and chopped prunes. Add butter, mixed spice powder, dark brown sugar, honey, orange zest from 2 oranges and orange juice from 1 and 1/2 orange add remaining half at-last if needed.
- Add cocoa powder, grape juice and bring the mixture to boil in low flame. It takes about 5-8 minutes to start the mixture to bubble. Once the bubbles start to appear on the edges, switch off the gas and allow the mixture to cool for about 30 minutes. Prepare the cake tin by lining bottom and the sides of the cake. To protect the top of the cake from burning keep the side little larger the tin.
- In a blender jar, add the blanched or whole almonds and make a powder. In a separate bowl add the all purpose flour, ground almonds, baking powder, baking soda and salt together and mix with a whisk to combine well. After around 30 minutes, once the mixture has cooled a little, add the beaten eggs. Now add this flour almond mix into the fruit mixture and mix with a spatula until the ingredients have combined.
- If you feel the batter is thick drizzle little orange juice now to loosen the batter. Carefully pour the fruit cake mixture into the lined 20 cm with minimum of 7-8 cm height cake tin. Cover the cake tin with another wax paper on top to prevent the sides from burning. Transfer the cake tin to the oven and bake for around 1 and 3/4 to 2 hours, or until the top of the cake is firm. If you insert a sharp knife into the middle of the cake the knife should come out clean.
These Christmas fruitcake recipes will have you thinking about holiday desserts in a whole new light. Forget everything you thought you felt about fruitcake. These twists on the Christmas classic will have you going in for seconds, and wanting to bake it more than once a year. This Christmas fruit cake was a breeze to make since I did not have to prepare the caramel. A sinfully rich Chocolate Fruit cake with mixed fruits that have been steeped in rum for over a year, cocoa powder and mixed spice.
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