Fruit cake
Fruit cake

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, fruit cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Fruit cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Fruit cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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 get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have fruit cake using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

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

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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 classic British recipe is very easy to This Yorkshire fruitcake recipe comes from Yorkshire sculptor Dominic Hopkinson, based on his. Fragrant spices, nuts, dried fruit, and plenty of rum make fruitcake a special treat. We've got dozens of wonderful fruitcake recipes. Though this traditional holiday cake is often maligned (I guess some people don't like candied fruit?), it's wonderful when well prepared. This fruitcake is our family's favorite.

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