Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake
Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, celebration (xmas) fruit cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Now add the two cups of flour and the two eggs to the fruit mixture but stir this with a wooden spoon as quickly as you can; Transfer the mixture to the tin and make a slight dip in the centre of the cake. Great recipe for Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake. A recipe I have developed over a few years.

Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook celebration (xmas) fruit cake using 21 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake:
  1. Take Dry Stuff
  2. Get 350 grams Plain Flour
  3. Get 2 teaspoon Cinnamon
  4. Make ready 2 teaspoons Mixed Spice
  5. Prepare Fruits
  6. Prepare 110 grams Chopped Candied Peel
  7. Get 110 grams Glacé Cherries, cut in half
  8. Take 2 Lemons Grated rind of
  9. Prepare 2 Oranges, Grated rind of
  10. Take 1 Kilogram Dried Fruits, (500grams sultanas, 500grams Seedless Raisins)
  11. Take Nuts (Optional!!)
  12. Make ready 110 grams Almonds
  13. Make ready 110 grams Walnuts
  14. Get 110 grams Hazelnuts
  15. Prepare Wet Stuff
  16. Get 4 large or 5 medium Eggs
  17. Get 2 tablespoons Brandy/Rum Or Milk !
  18. Get Sticky Stuff
  19. Take 300 grams Butter (or best Margarine)
  20. Make ready 300 grams Moist Dark Brown Sugar
  21. Take 3 level tablespoons Black Treacle(or Golden Syrup)

Chop pineapple, apricots and dates into pieces the same size as the Brazil nuts, leave nuts whole, combine fruit and nuts in a large bowl. Beat eggs in a bowl until thick and creamy, add sugar, essence, rum and softened butter, beat until well combined. Traditionally made months in advance of a celebration, like Christmas or a wedding, cakes with fruit soaked in alcohol, are festive and rustic. If you want a fruitcake in the near future, these quick fruitcake recipes will have you eating homemade fruitcake in no time.

Steps to make Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake:
  1. Prepare tins as follows. Double layer of grease proof paper, draw around the bottom of your tin. Grease paper, then cut to draw line, fit to bottom of tin.
  2. Double layer of grease proof paper, enough to go around sides of tin. Grease and fit to sides of tin, overlapping the bottom layer
  3. In a very large pan or bowl, mix all the dried fruits, rind of oranges and lemons, candied peel, cherries. Plus all the various nuts. Mix until evenly distributed.
  4. In a bowl, cream the butter, sugar and Black Treacle together.
  5. In another bowl, put the plain flour, cinnamon, mixed spices and salt. Use a whisk to gently mix it all until even.
  6. Break the eggs into a measuring jug or large cup, add Brandy/ Rum or milk and whisk lightly.
  7. Adding a little at a time, add egg mix and flour mix to the butter- sugar mix and combine until all has been used and smooth.
  8. Add this mix into the fruit- nut mix in the large bowl, mixing until everything is coated and even. The mix should be sticky and not very wet.
  9. Adding a bit at a time, put mix into your selected tins to 3/4 full. Dip your hand into a bowl of clean water and smooth down the cake mix, until raised slightly at the sides, gentle dip in the middle. (The cake will rise more in the center and you will end up with a level top!) Don’t worry if there is a small puddle, this will stop the top burning!
  10. Cook in a moderate oven(mark3. 160C. 325deg) for about 1 1/2 hours. Then turn down heat to Mark1-2, 140-150 C, 275-300deg, for a further two hours.
  11. Leave in tin about 30 minutes to cool. Then take out of the tin gently, into a wire rack to finish cooling completely before taking off the paper.
  12. This cake can be stored in an air-tight container for several weeks, or frozen, if required!
  13. If keeping for Xmas, a little Brandy or Rum, dribbled over the top, after piercing with a cocktail stick, after a month or so, then reseal.

After posting my guide on how to soak fruits for a Christmas Cake I have followed up with this recipe for baking the rich Christmas fruit cake. For the cake, place all the dried fruit, including the cherries, into a large mixing bowl, pour over the brandy and stir in the orange zest. Cover with clingfilm and leave to soak for three days. Fruitcake (or fruit cake or fruit bread) is a cake made with candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and optionally soaked in spirits. In the United Kingdom, certain rich versions may be iced and decorated.

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