Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, boozy fruit soak for your christmas cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Soak the dry fruits now to have melt-in-the-mouth moist fruit cake to enjoy on Christmas day, to share with family and friends. Below is a step-by-step tutorial which will take you through the process of soaking dried fruit for your special Christmas Cake. Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.
Boozy Fruit Soak For Your Christmas Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Boozy Fruit Soak For Your Christmas Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook boozy fruit soak for your christmas cake using 2 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Boozy Fruit Soak For Your Christmas Cake:
- Prepare 2 cups Chopped dried fruit and nut of your choice
- Get 1 cup dark rum
Using port on your Christmas fruitcake is good since it is a great addition. Soaking Christmas fruitcake in port brings out a lovely twist with lusciousness in your dessert. Also, to have that deep boozy feel, soak your fruits two weeks ahead if possible. And here's how the making part goes down.
Instructions to make Boozy Fruit Soak For Your Christmas Cake:
- Finely chop up the dried fruits and nuts.
- In a clean, dry glass or ceramic jar, add the chopped dry fruits and nuts and the rum. Mix well together with a wooden spoon.
- Seal the jar with a lid and keep in a cool, dry place away from sunlight.
- Every two or three days, give the fruit a mix and add about ¼ cup more rum if it looks too dry.
- You can throw in any dried fruit of your choice. I used dates, sultanas, a mixture of golden and black raisins, dried figs, dried apricot, and cashew. Candied Ginger and Orange are quite often added to the traditional cakes, but these don't favor my palate and hence I have left it out. Feel free to add in case you like these flavors.
- I have soaked Cashew along with the dried fruit. You really don't need to. If you like your nuts crisp, chop them and add along with an assortment of other nuts directly into your cake batter.
- You can also use Whiskey, Brandy, or good quality Port or Sherry to replace the rum used in the recipe.
- If you are looking at an alcohol-free version of cake, you can soak the dried fruit and nut in freshly squeezed orange juice. But please remember that such a cake will have a short shelf life as opposed to the cake containing alcohol soaked fruits.
- Please remember to use only glass or ceramic jars to soak the fruits. Metallic or plastic containers may not be your best choice as the alcohol may react with the metal or plastic which could be harmful.
The key step that makes this so much faster to make than other fruit cakes is the fruit soaking step. Most recipes call for dried fruit to be soaked overnight. Drain the alcohol from the fruit, saving the alcohol for the cake mix and for feeding the cake. Melt the butter in a large saucepan. This entire fruit soaking process and Christmas Fruit Cake/Pudding baking can be done in three ways.
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