Christmas Fruit cake
Christmas Fruit cake

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, christmas fruit cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Christmas Fruit cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Christmas Fruit cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

In a large bowl, combine the nuts, dates and cherries. Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt; add to nut mixture, stirring until nuts and fruit are well coated. It's a shame that fruitcake as a species gets such a bad rap. With its two key ingredients–rum and butter–it ought to be a hit.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. 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. Make ready 800 Gram Mixed fruits and raisins
  5. Get 50 gram almond powder
  6. Make ready 1 tbsp treacle
  7. Take 3 large eggs
  8. Make ready 1 pack Marzipan ready to roll
  9. Take 1 pack ready to roll fondant
  10. Get 1 pack decorating stars edible
  11. Take 85 ml Brandy
  12. Make ready 1 lemon zest
  13. Make ready 1 orange zest
  14. Get Few almonds as topping
  15. Make ready Apricot jam

Use royal icing to ice it or almond paste and royal icing, I don't like almond paste! Fear not: this moist, dark cake is loaded with yummy-tasting dried fruits, not the icky, bitter candied peel and citron you remember from visiting your grandma at Christmas. The dried fruits suggested below are simply that — suggestions. Anna Mary's gourmet cake is more a nut cake with fruit rather than a fruitcake with nuts.

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.

The dried fruits suggested below are simply that — suggestions. Anna Mary's gourmet cake is more a nut cake with fruit rather than a fruitcake with nuts. Made from a Mennonite family recipe, this is the cake you savor at the holidays, and happily enjoy all year round. The holiday season presents a prickly moral dilemma for my mother. Her signature dessert is a meticulously faithful execution of Great-Aunt Margaret's Christmas fruitcake recipe, which must be soaked in peach brandy.

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