Fruit cake
Fruit cake

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Fruit cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Fruit cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

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.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook fruit cake using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Fruit cake:
  1. Take 150 ml brandy or rum
  2. Prepare 500 g dried fruit
  3. Take 100 g glace cherries
  4. Get 250 g brown sugar
  5. Take 175 g butter/margarine
  6. Prepare 250 g All purpose flour
  7. Take 1 teaspoon baking powder
  8. Make ready 1 teaspoon mixed spice
  9. Take 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  10. Take 3 large eggs

Fruit cakes are heavy, dense cakes that have a relatively low flour content and contain lots of mixed dried fruit. Fruit cake haters, prepare to have your minds changed. The fruit cake The Beloved makes every year is Alton Brown fruit cake, and it is moist and fantastic! Though this traditional holiday cake is often maligned (I guess some people don't like candied fruit?), it's wonderful when well prepared.

Steps to make Fruit cake:
  1. Pour dried mixed fruit into a bowl then pour over brandy/rum. Allow to soak for at least 6 hours.
  2. When ready to bake, set oven to 180 degrees centigrade. Butter an 8inch pan and dust with flour.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Spoon batter into pan and bake until cake is done (when a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean)

This fruitcake is our family's favorite. Get the recipe from Rock Recipes. The perfect tea time treat is a slice of delicious rich fruitcake. This classic British recipe is very easy to This Yorkshire fruitcake recipe comes from Yorkshire sculptor Dominic Hopkinson, based on his. This Fruit Cake recipe is adapted from Nigel Slater's excellent 'The Kitchen Diaries' and it is by far the best one I have ever made.

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