Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, fruit cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. 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. Give the classic Christmas fruitcake a makeover with cinnamon, rose, orange blossom and tropical mango for a fruity and fragrant cake. This fruit cake is a simpler and easier version of making a traditional fruit cake or old-fashioned fruit cake. Fragrant spices, nuts, dried fruit, and plenty of rum make fruitcake a special treat.
Fruit cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Fruit cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have fruit cake using 16 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Fruit cake:
- Take 1/4 th cup Raisins or golden kismis
- Prepare 1/4 th cup Sultanas or black raisins
- Prepare 1/4 th cup chopped dates
- Make ready 1/4 th cup dry dates/ dry plums or khubani
- Make ready 1/4 th cup Orange marmalade
- Get 1/2 cup Orange juice or grape juice
- Prepare 1 tsp Orange zest
- Make ready 1/2 cup assorted chopped nuts
- Take 1 +1/2 cup All purpose flour
- Make ready 1 cup soft unsalted butter
- Get 1 cup brown sugar
- Take 3 eggs
- Get 1 +1/2 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp mix spice(nutmeg, cinnamon & dry ginger)
- Prepare 1 tsp vanilla essence
- Get 1 pinch salt
Fruit cakes are heavy, dense cakes that have a relatively low flour content and contain lots of mixed Mary Berry has created the perfect fruit cake recipe for Christmas. It's boozy and fruity, with loads of. Get the recipe from Rock Recipes. Though this traditional holiday cake is often maligned (I guess some people don't like candied fruit?), it's wonderful when well prepared.
Steps to make Fruit cake:
- Take a glass. Add all the dry fruits, orange marmalade, orange zest and fruit juice.
- Mix, cover and keep aside for 4-5 hours in room temperature.
- After 4-5 hours, keep the glass in the refrigerator for 2-3 days so that dry fruits soak the juice completely.
- The day you want to bake the cake, take out the glass from the refrigerator, at least 4-5 hours before baking.
- Now start making the cake.
- Cream butter and sugar in a food processor or with a hand mixer. The mixture should be fluffy and creamy.
- Sieve together flour and baking powder.
- Pre heat oven at 180 degree Centigrade for 10 minutes.
- Now add eggs one by one to the butter mixture and whisk well for about 1-2 minutes. Don't over beat.
- Add vanilla essence, spice powder, salt and assorted chopped nuts. Mix with a spatula. Keep some nuts separately to garnish.
- Add the flour, baking powder mixture and fold gently with cut and fold method.
- Now add the soaked dry frits and fold gently. If any juice left un soaked, discard that.
- Pour this batter in a greased and lined rounded(9 inch diameter) baking dish. The batter should be little thick in consistency.
- Tap the dish 2-3 times and garnish the top with the remaining assorted nuts.
- Bake it for about 40-45 minutes or till a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the cake.
Get the recipe from Rock Recipes. Though this traditional holiday cake is often maligned (I guess some people don't like candied fruit?), it's wonderful when well prepared. This fruitcake is our family's favorite. From traditional fruit cakes to a boiled fruit cake and more, we have loads of tried and tested recipes to choose from. Perfect for everything from afternoon tea to a snack.
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