Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, christmas fruit cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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.
Christmas Fruit Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Christmas Fruit Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook christmas fruit cake using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Fruit Cake:
- Take 1 cup light brown sugar
- Prepare 1 cup water
- Prepare 1/4 cup or 55 grams butter, diced
- Take 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Get 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- Make ready 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- Take 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Prepare 2 cups seedless raisins
- Make ready 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- Make ready 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- Take 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Take 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Order fruitcake online from Red Truck Bakery. Beat in the eggs one at a time, scraping the bowl after each addition. In a separate bowl whisk together the flour and cocoa. Add the flour mixture and the syrup (or boiled cider) to the mixture in the bowl, beating gently to combine.
Instructions to make Christmas Fruit Cake:
- Grease your loaf pan with cooking spray or butter, Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
- In a large saucepan or sizeable pot, over medium heat, bring to a boil the sugar, water, butter, spices, and raisins; boil for five minutes, then remove from heat, and let cool till lukewarm.
- Stir into this mixture the lightly beaten eggs, flour, baking soda, vanilla extract and candied fruit.
- Pour into your prepared loaf pan and bake for 50 - 65 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack. Cover and store, if possible, for a few days before serving or serve almost immediately if you can't wait.
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. Place each cake on a large sheet of aluminum foil.
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