Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chocolate christmas fruit cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Chocolate Christmas Fruit Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Chocolate Christmas Fruit Cake is something which I have loved my whole life.
This chocolate fruit cake is a fun twist on the classic Christmas dessert. It's packed with flavor from rich chocolate, cranberries, figs, and apricots. This chocolate fruit cake is a little out of my comfort zone - but I just had to give it a try.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have chocolate christmas fruit cake using 17 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Christmas Fruit Cake:
- Get 2 cups chopped Dry Fruits of your choice (Dates, Prunes, Cranberries, Figs, Raisins, Sultanas, Apricots)
- Take 1 cup Dark Rum (Whisky, Sherry or Brandy will also do)
- Take 250 grams Black raisins
- Prepare 250 grams Dried soft prunes
- Take 1/4 cup Honey
- Take 2 Oranges, zest and juice
- Make ready 1 teaspoon Mixed spice- (cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg)
- Take 2 tablespoons Cocoa powder
- Take 3 tablespoons Grape Juice
- Get 3/4 cup Butter
- Prepare 3/4 cup Dark brown sugar
- Make ready 3 medium Eggs
- Take 1 1/4 cups All purpose Flour
- Make ready 1/2 cup Ground almonds (with or without skin)-
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon Baking powder
- Take 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
- Take pinch Salt
This Christmas fruit cake was a breeze to make since I did not have to prepare the caramel. A sinfully rich Chocolate Fruit cake with mixed fruits that have been steeped in rum for over a year, cocoa powder and mixed spice. Combine butter, sugar, chocolate and the water in medium saucepan; stir over heat until sugar dissolves. Fold in pecans, dates, cherries and chocolate chips.
Instructions to make Chocolate Christmas Fruit Cake:
- In a clean, dry glass jar, add the chopped dry fruits and the rum and mix well together with a wooden spoon. Seal the jar and keep in a cool, dry place away from sunlight. Every 2-3 days, give the fruit a mix and add about ¼ cup more rum if it looks too dry. You can soak the dry fruits for 1 – 4 weeks before you bake the cake.
- Reheat the oven to 150 degrees for 10 minutes. In a broad pan, add the raisins and chopped prunes. Add butter, mixed spice powder, dark brown sugar, honey, orange zest from 2 oranges and orange juice from 1 and 1/2 orange add remaining half at-last if needed.
- Add cocoa powder, grape juice and bring the mixture to boil in low flame. It takes about 5-8 minutes to start the mixture to bubble. Once the bubbles start to appear on the edges, switch off the gas and allow the mixture to cool for about 30 minutes. Prepare the cake tin by lining bottom and the sides of the cake. To protect the top of the cake from burning keep the side little larger the tin.
- In a blender jar, add the blanched or whole almonds and make a powder. In a separate bowl add the all purpose flour, ground almonds, baking powder, baking soda and salt together and mix with a whisk to combine well. After around 30 minutes, once the mixture has cooled a little, add the beaten eggs. Now add this flour almond mix into the fruit mixture and mix with a spatula until the ingredients have combined.
- If you feel the batter is thick drizzle little orange juice now to loosen the batter. Carefully pour the fruit cake mixture into the lined 20 cm with minimum of 7-8 cm height cake tin. Cover the cake tin with another wax paper on top to prevent the sides from burning. Transfer the cake tin to the oven and bake for around 1 and 3/4 to 2 hours, or until the top of the cake is firm. If you insert a sharp knife into the middle of the cake the knife should come out clean.
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. The traditionalists out there will enjoy the old English fruitcake, brandied fruitcake, and citrus fruitcake to go with Christmas dinner. If you want try a new, delicious fruitcake recipe, we recommend a batch of the fruitcake holiday cookies , fruitcake homemade cheesecake, and even an eggnog recipe that infuses fruitcake challah with the. It's a shame that fruitcake as a species gets such a bad rap.
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