Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, fruit cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Fruit cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Fruit cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine 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 get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook fruit cake using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Fruit cake:
- Make ready 250 g margarine
- Make ready 250 g brown sugar
- Prepare 4 eggs
- Make ready 1 tsp mixed spice
- Prepare 1 tsp nutmeg
- Make ready 1 tsp cinnamon
- Take 1 tsp ginger
- Prepare 1 tsp glycerin
- Prepare 1 tsp marmalade
- Prepare 1 tsp lemon juice
- Get 200 g plain flour
- Prepare 200 g self raising flour
- Prepare 1/4 tsp salt
- Prepare 400 g mixed fruits
- Make ready 50 g blanched almonds
- Get 1/2 cup sherry
- Make ready 2 tsp cocoa
- Prepare 2 tsp treacle/ golden syrup
- Get Brown food color/gravy
If you want a fruitcake in the near future, these quick fruitcake. Traditionally made months in advance of a celebration, like Christmas or a wedding, cakes with fruit soaked in alcohol, are festive. Either way, this fruit cake is a welcome addition to the holiday table. This easy Christmas fruitcake is perfect for the holidays.
Steps to make Fruit cake:
- Soak fruits in the sherry for at least 24 hours.
- Cut nuts and keep separate.
- Cream margarine and sugar.
- Add eggs one at a time.
- Add the spices, and the rest except fruits, nuts and flour. Mix well.
- Add flour and fruits alternately, mix well.
- Add nuts.
- Place in to prepared tins. Drop or bang tins to settle any air pockets.
- Bake for 45mins to 1 hour or when a skewer comes out clean.
It's light, tender, and full of dried fruits and nuts. Fruit cakes are heavy, dense cakes that have a relatively low flour content and contain lots of mixed dried fruit. THE BEST RICH FRUIT CAKE RECIPE - PERFECT FOR CHRISTMAS A rich fruit cake is a perfect blend of fruit and nuts in a cake batter that uses brown sugar as a base. The perfect tea time treat is a slice of delicious rich fruitcake. This classic British recipe is very easy to make with just a little planning.
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