Christmas Fruit cake
Christmas Fruit cake

Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, christmas fruit cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook christmas fruit cake using 15 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Christmas Fruit cake:
  1. Prepare 220 Gram All purpose flour
  2. Get 220 Gram Muscavado dark sugar
  3. Prepare 220 Gram Butter
  4. Take 800 Gram Mixed fruits and raisins
  5. Take 50 gram almond powder
  6. Get 1 tbsp treacle
  7. Take 3 large eggs
  8. Take 1 pack Marzipan ready to roll
  9. Make ready 1 pack ready to roll fondant
  10. Prepare 1 pack decorating stars edible
  11. Prepare 85 ml Brandy
  12. Get 1 lemon zest
  13. Get 1 orange zest
  14. Take Few almonds as topping
  15. Get Apricot jam

Spoon the mixture into the prepared cake tin and spread out evenly with the back of a spoon. Decorate the top with the whole blanched almonds and glacé cherries, pushing. When the cake is cold wrap in double greaseproof paper and store in an airtight tin. First poke little holes in the cake with a knitting needle or a skewer.

Instructions to make Christmas Fruit cake:
  1. In a large bowl with mixed dried fruit, Add the brandy and give a good mix. Then cover with clingfilm and soak for 3 nights in the fridge.
  2. On the fourth day(after 3 nights of soaking mixed fruits in brandy), Grease and line a 20cm cake tin, preferably with a removable base.
  3. Preheat the oven to 150°C.
  4. With an electric mixer, beat the butter with the sugar and black treacle until paler and fluffy. Gradually add the eggs, beating each one at a time.
  5. Add the flour and mix with spatula. I don't use electric mixer for the flour.
  6. Now add the mixed fruits, almond powder. It might look a bit messy at this point but that's how it would be.
  7. Pour into the pan. Top it with almonds. This will help for good appearance Incase we don't have time to decorate later!
  8. Cover the pan with parchment paper to overturn the top layer. Keep the pan in oven for 3 hours at 140 *C
  9. Switch off oven. Allow cake to cool down.
  10. Keep in airtight container.
  11. On the day of decorating, knead the marzipan and roll it over. I did according to Waitrose video on YouTube.
  12. You need 2 TSP apricot jam a bit heated to apply on cake so that marzipan sticks to it.
  13. 12 hours after marzipan dried, I applied the fondant icing similar to how marzipan was kneaded, rolled and stuck on cake. Cut out the edges.
  14. Then stick the edible stars
  15. Keep in airtight cake container until ready to display.

When the cake is cold wrap in double greaseproof paper and store in an airtight tin. First poke little holes in the cake with a knitting needle or a skewer. The fruit is soaked in either apple juice OR a combination of apple juice and brandy (for those who like boozy Christmas Cake). Fruit cake is a traditional British Christmas cake that is full of fruits and nuts and laced with alcohol, usually brandy. This gives the fruit cake a subtle brandy flavor and a moist texture, plus it also allows the fruit cake to be stored for a long time.

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