Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, rum and fruits christmas cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Rum and fruits Christmas Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Rum and fruits Christmas Cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
Brush the cake with rum for extra flavour and dust it with icing sugar and garnish it with some cherries. (optional) Store in an air tight container in the refrigerator for upto a month. Christmas cake, black cake, wedding cake, or great cake are all names used to describe this famous Caribbean dessert that is made with aged rum-soaked fruits. This is a cake made to mark the celebration of Christmas, weddings, christenings, baptisms, and significant anniversaries, and in more elaborate versions it takes days to assemble as the cake is brushed with rum and wine syrup on various.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook rum and fruits christmas cake using 10 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Rum and fruits Christmas Cake:
- Prepare 1/2 Cup Dry fruits nuts and (increase qty as per taste)
- Get 180 Millilitres Rum
- Take 125 Grams Sugar
- Make ready 100 Grams Maida All purpose flour /
- Take 1/4 Cup Maida (for tossing fruits)
- Take 1/2 Cup vegetable oil Neutral tasting
- Make ready 1.5 Teaspoons vanilla essence
- Prepare 2 Eggs
- Prepare 1 Teaspoon Baking powder
- Take 1/4 Cup water
Hi and Welcome to our website! Cover the bowl with clingfilm or foil and leave to soak, stirring again each day. Christmas is special and so the typical traditional Christmas cake is! To bake proper Christmas cake one thing is must which is nothing but properly seasoned Rum Soaked Fruits and Nuts!
Instructions to make Rum and fruits Christmas Cake:
- Chop the fruits and nuts into small pieces and soak in rum for at least 15 days (mine was in for 2.5 months. also have used more quantity than 1/2 cup of nuts. Makes yours to your taste)
- Caramelize the sugar. Add the water and leave to cool
- Separate egg yolk and white and beat the white to form soft peaks and set aside. (not stiff peaks, from my experience the cakes rises with a hollow cavity on the top since the fruits in the cake make the batter heavier when beaten to stiff)
- Combine the yolks, essence and oil
- Add half the qty of flour and combine.
- Add the caramelized sugar and combine well. Add the remaining flour and combine
- Strain the fruits and reserve the rum
- Toss the fruits in 1/4 cup of maida so that the fruits have a thing coating on it. This prevents the fruits from sinking
- Add one or two tbsp of rum from the reserved rum to the cake batter with baking powder and mix.
- Now fold in the fruits with the cake batter. Once done fold in the egg-whits to this batter
- Prepare a greased, dusted and lined cake pan. Pour the batter into the cake pan (this makes a 7 to 9 inch cake). Set this into a dry pressure cooker on top of a small stand so that the base of the pan is not in contact with the base of the pressure cooker. Close without the whistle
- Bake on high flame for first 2 min, medium for next 5 min and on low for around 30-35 min. Cake is done When a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean
- Leave the cake to cool and drizzle the remaining rum on top of it
You may ask why do I at all need a separate post for Rum soaked Fruits and Nuts for Christmas cake! Believe me or not, this is extremely important. Rum cake is extra special because it's loaded will all kinds of raisins, dried berries, dates, apricots, and dry fruits. What makes it even more delicious is the Captain Morgan Original Rum. I can't imagine whipping up this festive special cake without Captain Morgan Original Rum.
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