Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, fruit cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Fruitcake (or fruit cake or fruit bread) is a cake made with candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and optionally soaked in spirits. In the United Kingdom, certain rich versions may be iced and decorated. Fruitcakes are typically served in celebration of weddings and Christmas.
Fruit cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Fruit cake is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook fruit cake using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Fruit cake:
- Prepare 150 ml brandy or rum
- Get 500 g dried fruit
- Take 100 g glace cherries
- Get 250 g brown sugar
- Get 175 g butter/margarine
- Get 250 g All purpose flour
- Take 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Make ready 1 teaspoon mixed spice
- Prepare 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- Make ready 3 large eggs
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Steps to make Fruit cake:
- Pour dried mixed fruit into a bowl then pour over brandy/rum. Allow to soak for at least 6 hours.
- When ready to bake, set oven to 180 degrees centigrade. Butter an 8inch pan and dust with flour.
- In a saucepan, put butter, sugar, 150ml rum or brandy (water can be used as an alternative) and mixed fruits. Set on medium heat to simmer for 10 minutes. Cool for 15 minutes.
- Beat eggs and pour into sugar/fruit mixture. Stir. Add baking powder and mixed spice into flour. Pour into sugar fruit mixture and stir until mixed in.
- Leave cake in the pan to cool for at least 20 minutes. Turn out from pan and allow to cool. Wrap cake and feed with brandy once a week.
- Spoon batter into pan and bake until cake is done (when a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean)
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