Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, fruit cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Fruit cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Fruit cake is something that I have loved my whole life.
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 recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have fruit cake using 16 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Fruit cake:
- Get 1/4 th cup Raisins or golden kismis
- Take 1/4 th cup Sultanas or black raisins
- Take 1/4 th cup chopped dates
- Make ready 1/4 th cup dry dates/ dry plums or khubani
- Take 1/4 th cup Orange marmalade
- Get 1/2 cup Orange juice or grape juice
- Get 1 tsp Orange zest
- Make ready 1/2 cup assorted chopped nuts
- Prepare 1 +1/2 cup All purpose flour
- Get 1 cup soft unsalted butter
- Make ready 1 cup brown sugar
- Take 3 eggs
- Take 1 +1/2 tsp baking powder
- Take 1/2 tsp mix spice(nutmeg, cinnamon & dry ginger)
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla essence
- Make ready 1 pinch salt
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:
- Take a glass. Add all the dry fruits, orange marmalade, orange zest and fruit juice.
- Mix, cover and keep aside for 4-5 hours in room temperature.
- After 4-5 hours, keep the glass in the refrigerator for 2-3 days so that dry fruits soak the juice completely.
- The day you want to bake the cake, take out the glass from the refrigerator, at least 4-5 hours before baking.
- Now start making the cake.
- Cream butter and sugar in a food processor or with a hand mixer. The mixture should be fluffy and creamy.
- Sieve together flour and baking powder.
- Pre heat oven at 180 degree Centigrade for 10 minutes.
- Now add eggs one by one to the butter mixture and whisk well for about 1-2 minutes. Don't over beat.
- Add vanilla essence, spice powder, salt and assorted chopped nuts. Mix with a spatula. Keep some nuts separately to garnish.
- Add the flour, baking powder mixture and fold gently with cut and fold method.
- Now add the soaked dry frits and fold gently. If any juice left un soaked, discard that.
- Pour this batter in a greased and lined rounded(9 inch diameter) baking dish. The batter should be little thick in consistency.
- Tap the dish 2-3 times and garnish the top with the remaining assorted nuts.
- Bake it for about 40-45 minutes or till a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the cake.
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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