Recipe: Perfect Fruit cake

Fruit cake. Fruitcake (or fruit cake or fruit bread) is a cake made with candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and optionally soaked in spirits. Fragrant spices, nuts, dried fruit, and plenty of rum make fruitcake a special treat. We've got dozens of wonderful fruitcake recipes.

This easy Christmas fruitcake is perfect for the holidays. It's light, tender, and full of dried fruits and nuts. If you want a fruitcake in the near future, these quick fruitcake. You can cook Fruit cake using 16 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Fruit cake

1. Prepare 1/4 of th cup Raisins or golden kismis.
2. You need 1/4 of th cup Sultanas or black raisins.
3. You need 1/4 of th cup chopped dates.
4. You need 1/4 of th cup dry dates/ dry plums or khubani.
5. You need 1/4 of th cup Orange marmalade.
6. You need 1/2 cup of Orange juice or grape juice.
7. Prepare 1 tsp of Orange zest.
8. You need 1/2 cup of assorted chopped nuts.
9. Prepare 1 of +1/2 cup All purpose flour.
10. You need 1 cup of soft unsalted butter.
11. It's 1 cup of brown sugar.
12. You need 3 of eggs.
13. Prepare 1 of +1/2 tsp baking powder.
14. It's 1/2 tsp of mix spice(nutmeg, cinnamon & dry ginger).
15. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla essence.
16. It's 1 pinch of salt.

Traditionally made months in advance of a celebration, like Christmas or a wedding, cakes with fruit soaked in alcohol, are festive. A Christmas cake that dates back to ancient Rome!! Deronda demonstrates how to make this modern America FRUIT CAKE. loaded with an assortment of dried. 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.

Fruit cake instructions

1. Take a glass. Add all the dry fruits, orange marmalade, orange zest and fruit juice..
2. Mix, cover and keep aside for 4-5 hours in room temperature..
3. After 4-5 hours, keep the glass in the refrigerator for 2-3 days so that dry fruits soak the juice completely..
4. The day you want to bake the cake, take out the glass from the refrigerator, at least 4-5 hours before baking..
5. Now start making the cake..
6. Cream butter and sugar in a food processor or with a hand mixer. The mixture should be fluffy and creamy..
7. Sieve together flour and baking powder..
8. Pre heat oven at 180 degree Centigrade for 10 minutes..
9. Now add eggs one by one to the butter mixture and whisk well for about 1-2 minutes. Don't over beat..
10. Add vanilla essence, spice powder, salt and assorted chopped nuts. Mix with a spatula. Keep some nuts separately to garnish..
11. Add the flour, baking powder mixture and fold gently with cut and fold method..
12. Now add the soaked dry frits and fold gently. If any juice left un soaked, discard that..
13. Pour this batter in a greased and lined rounded(9 inch diameter) baking dish. The batter should be little thick in consistency..
14. Tap the dish 2-3 times and garnish the top with the remaining assorted nuts..
15. Bake it for about 40-45 minutes or till a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the cake..

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 is my own fruitcake recipe and it's a family favorite. The mixture of fruits and nuts helps make it a tasty treat. Holiday Fruitcake Recipe photo by Taste of Home.

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