Christmas Fruit cake
Christmas Fruit cake

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, christmas fruit cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Christmas Fruit cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Christmas Fruit cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

In a large bowl, combine the nuts, dates and cherries. Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt; add to nut mixture, stirring until nuts and fruit are well coated. It's a shame that fruitcake as a species gets such a bad rap.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook christmas fruit cake using 15 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Christmas Fruit cake:
  1. Make ready 220 Gram All purpose flour
  2. Take 220 Gram Muscavado dark sugar
  3. Make ready 220 Gram Butter
  4. Get 800 Gram Mixed fruits and raisins
  5. Prepare 50 gram almond powder
  6. Take 1 tbsp treacle
  7. Take 3 large eggs
  8. Make ready 1 pack Marzipan ready to roll
  9. Take 1 pack ready to roll fondant
  10. Prepare 1 pack decorating stars edible
  11. Take 85 ml Brandy
  12. Take 1 lemon zest
  13. Prepare 1 orange zest
  14. Take Few almonds as topping
  15. Make ready Apricot jam

The secret to the fruit cake according to Virginia Living Magazine is the Cuban fruitcake uses a light hand on the spices and gives the cake enough time to age in rum. Order fruitcake online from Red Truck Bakery. Claxton Fruit Cake Fruitcake can remain in its pan for storage, if desired. Brush the warm cake with rum or brandy.

Steps to make Christmas Fruit cake:
  1. In a large bowl with mixed dried fruit, Add the brandy and give a good mix. Then cover with clingfilm and soak for 3 nights in the fridge.
  2. On the fourth day(after 3 nights of soaking mixed fruits in brandy), Grease and line a 20cm cake tin, preferably with a removable base.
  3. Preheat the oven to 150°C.
  4. With an electric mixer, beat the butter with the sugar and black treacle until paler and fluffy. Gradually add the eggs, beating each one at a time.
  5. Add the flour and mix with spatula. I don't use electric mixer for the flour.
  6. Now add the mixed fruits, almond powder. It might look a bit messy at this point but that's how it would be.
  7. Pour into the pan. Top it with almonds. This will help for good appearance Incase we don't have time to decorate later!
  8. Cover the pan with parchment paper to overturn the top layer. Keep the pan in oven for 3 hours at 140 *C
  9. Switch off oven. Allow cake to cool down.
  10. Keep in airtight container.
  11. On the day of decorating, knead the marzipan and roll it over. I did according to Waitrose video on YouTube.
  12. You need 2 TSP apricot jam a bit heated to apply on cake so that marzipan sticks to it.
  13. 12 hours after marzipan dried, I applied the fondant icing similar to how marzipan was kneaded, rolled and stuck on cake. Cut out the edges.
  14. Then stick the edible stars
  15. Keep in airtight cake container until ready to display.

The holiday season presents a prickly moral dilemma for my mother. Her signature dessert is a meticulously faithful execution of Great-Aunt Margaret's Christmas fruitcake recipe, which must be soaked in peach brandy. But Mama's a Southern Baptist, so drinkin's a sin. Fruitcake must be completely cool before removing from the pan. And here's how the making part goes down.

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