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Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have celebration (xmas) fruit cake using 21 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake:
- Get Dry Stuff
- Get 350 grams Plain Flour
- Prepare 2 teaspoon Cinnamon
- Prepare 2 teaspoons Mixed Spice
- Prepare Fruits
- Take 110 grams Chopped Candied Peel
- Prepare 110 grams Glacé Cherries, cut in half
- Make ready 2 Lemons Grated rind of
- Make ready 2 Oranges, Grated rind of
- Prepare 1 Kilogram Dried Fruits, (500grams sultanas, 500grams Seedless Raisins)
- Get Nuts (Optional!!)
- Take 110 grams Almonds
- Take 110 grams Walnuts
- Take 110 grams Hazelnuts
- Prepare Wet Stuff
- Get 4 large or 5 medium Eggs
- Take 2 tablespoons Brandy/Rum Or Milk !
- Prepare Sticky Stuff
- Prepare 300 grams Butter (or best Margarine)
- Take 300 grams Moist Dark Brown Sugar
- Take 3 level tablespoons Black Treacle(or Golden Syrup)
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Instructions to make Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake:
- Prepare tins as follows. Double layer of grease proof paper, draw around the bottom of your tin. Grease paper, then cut to draw line, fit to bottom of tin.
- Double layer of grease proof paper, enough to go around sides of tin. Grease and fit to sides of tin, overlapping the bottom layer
- In a very large pan or bowl, mix all the dried fruits, rind of oranges and lemons, candied peel, cherries. Plus all the various nuts. Mix until evenly distributed.
- In a bowl, cream the butter, sugar and Black Treacle together.
- In another bowl, put the plain flour, cinnamon, mixed spices and salt. Use a whisk to gently mix it all until even.
- Break the eggs into a measuring jug or large cup, add Brandy/ Rum or milk and whisk lightly.
- Adding a little at a time, add egg mix and flour mix to the butter- sugar mix and combine until all has been used and smooth.
- Add this mix into the fruit- nut mix in the large bowl, mixing until everything is coated and even. The mix should be sticky and not very wet.
- Adding a bit at a time, put mix into your selected tins to 3/4 full. Dip your hand into a bowl of clean water and smooth down the cake mix, until raised slightly at the sides, gentle dip in the middle. (The cake will rise more in the center and you will end up with a level top!) Don’t worry if there is a small puddle, this will stop the top burning!
- Cook in a moderate oven(mark3. 160C. 325deg) for about 1 1/2 hours. Then turn down heat to Mark1-2, 140-150 C, 275-300deg, for a further two hours.
- Leave in tin about 30 minutes to cool. Then take out of the tin gently, into a wire rack to finish cooling completely before taking off the paper.
- This cake can be stored in an air-tight container for several weeks, or frozen, if required!
- If keeping for Xmas, a little Brandy or Rum, dribbled over the top, after piercing with a cocktail stick, after a month or so, then reseal.
Christmas Fruit Cake was filled with dry fruits and nuts, generously spiced and enriched with butter and eggs. This is one celebration cake that stands own its own - no frills needed. Tender, sweet , spicy and fruity it was indeed a treat to wait for. Most fruit cake recipes call for soaking the dried fruits in alcohol for several days to weeks. But the recipe shared here is an instant one which doesn't require To make this eggless fruit cake, you can use any of your favorite dried fruits likes raisins, dried dates, figs, apricots, berries and glace cherries.
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