Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, fruit cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Fruitcake (or fruit cake or fruit bread) is a cake made with candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and optionally soaked in spirits. Fragrant spices, nuts, dried fruit, and plenty of rum make fruitcake a special treat. We've got dozens of wonderful fruitcake recipes.
Fruit cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Fruit cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have fruit cake using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Fruit cake:
- Prepare 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- Take 1 cup water
- Make ready 1/4 cup butter/margarine
- Make ready 1 tspn ground cinnamon
- Prepare 1/2 tspn ground cloves
- Prepare 1 tspn ground ginger
- Make ready 1/2 tspn salt
- Get 2 cups seedless raisins
- Take 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- Take 1 1/2 all purpose flour
- Take 1 tspn baking soda
- Prepare 1 tspn vanilla extract
- Get 1 cup candied and chopped mixed peel
Traditionally made months in advance of a celebration, like Christmas or a wedding, cakes with fruit soaked in alcohol, are festive. Either way, this fruit cake is a welcome addition to the holiday table. This easy Christmas fruitcake is perfect for the holidays. It's light, tender, and full of dried fruits and nuts.
Instructions to make Fruit cake:
- Gather all your ingredients and prepare your baking tin
- In a cooking pot (sufuria) put your raisins, peels, sugar, butter, water, cinnamon, cloves, ginger and salt.
- Place in the pot in your cooker. Bring the ingredients to boil. Mix and let them simmer for 5 minutes. Stir in between.
- Turn off your cooker and let your mix cool to room temperature/ warm.This will ensure your eggs don’t cook when adding them. While cooling, preheat your oven at 180C.
- Once cooled add the eggs, vanilla essence, baking soda and flour. Mix all till incorporated. Don’t overdo it.
- Transfer your cake butter to baking tin and bake for 40 minutes or toothpick comes out clean.
- Serve with a cup of tea🤤🤤
A Christmas cake that dates back to ancient Rome!! This is my own fruitcake recipe and it's a family favorite. The mixture of fruits and nuts helps make it a tasty treat. Holiday Fruitcake Recipe photo by Taste of Home. THE BEST RICH FRUIT CAKE RECIPE - PERFECT FOR CHRISTMAS A rich fruit cake is a perfect blend of fruit and nuts in a cake batter that uses brown sugar as a base.
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