Christmas Fruit Cake
Christmas Fruit Cake

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, christmas fruit cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Christmas Fruit Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Christmas Fruit Cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook christmas fruit cake using 18 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Christmas Fruit Cake:
  1. Prepare 5 cups All purposeflour (Maida)
  2. Take 1 pound Butter - ( room temp)
  3. Take 3 cups Sugar
  4. Get 2 tsps Baking powder
  5. Make ready 2 tsps Vanilla extract
  6. Make ready 10 Eggs
  7. Take 1 cup Tutti Frutti
  8. Get 1 cup Raisins
  9. Prepare 1 cup Cashewnuts (chopped)
  10. Get 1 cup Dates Rum (or enough to soak the fruit) (chopped)
  11. Make ready As required Orange and lemon peel
  12. Prepare 1/2 cup sugar Granulated
  13. Prepare 1 cup Water
  14. Make ready 1/2 tsp Cinnamon (powdered)
  15. Take 1/2 tsp Nutmeg (powdered)
  16. Make ready 1/2 tsp Ginger powder
  17. Make ready 1/2 tsp Cloves powder
  18. Make ready 1/2 tsp cardamom powder

This gives the fruit cake a subtle brandy flavor and a moist texture, plus it also allows the fruit cake to be stored for a long time. 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. Beat in the eggs one at a time, scraping the bowl after each addition.

Steps to make Christmas Fruit Cake:
  1. FRUIT PREPRATION:    Chop and soak the dry fruits in rum/wine and keep it in a bottle  at room temperature. (You could do it 2 to 3 months ahead. Make sure you shake the jar once a while. Longer the better. I do a year in advance)
  2. CARAMEL PREPRATION: In a heavy bottomed pan, add the sugar and a tbsp of water on medium high heat. The sugar will start to melt and start to change colour. Swirl the vessel a couple of times. Slowly the colour will become a little dark golden brown. Turn off the heat, immediately pour half a cup of water, stir and mix well (Wear oven mittens and a long sleeve shirt. Caramel is hot and can splatter, especially when adding water).
  3. CAKE BATTER : Sift the flour along with  dry ingredients and keep aside.
  4. Separate egg yolks from the whites, beat the yolks and vanilla till golden and creamy.
  5. MIX Sugar and butter. Beat very well with Mixer.
  6. Add  yolk mixture little at a time alternating with little flour and combine till smooth.
  7. Pour the caramel syrup  and beat till everything is smooth and combined.
  8. Add soaked fruits and fold to the mixture.
  9. Beat the egg whites until light and frothy before folding them into the cake mixture.
  10. Grease the cake pan well and line with parchment paper. Pour batter up to half of the cake pan.
  11. Bake for 60 min at 325F or until tooth pick inserted into the center comes out clean.(Preheat the oven first before starting and make sure the rack is in the center)
  12. Remove from the oven and cool in the pan for some time. Invert and let it cool well before cutting. Enjoy :)

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. 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.

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