Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, christmas rich fruit cake. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Christmas rich fruit cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Christmas rich fruit cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
It's a traditional cake for weddings, birthdays and Christmas in Australia. Although I submitted the original recipe, I personally would soak the fruit for a day or two in port or brandy before I baked the cake, as I like a really moist and boozy fruit cake. I double or triple the recipe depending on the size tins I. How to make a rich fruit cake for Christmas In a large bowl, mix together the mixed dried fruits, glace cherries, and orange zest.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have christmas rich fruit cake using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas rich fruit cake:
- Make ready 200 gm flour
- Prepare 300 gm brown sugar
- Make ready 100 gm almond flour
- Get 3 eggs
- Prepare 1 stick unsalted butter
- Get For fruits
- Get 1 pack cherries
- Make ready 1 pack dates
- Make ready 1 pack sweetened pineapple chunks
- Get 1 bowl golden raisins
- Get 1/2 cup orange juice
- Take 1 nutmeg, 4 cloves, all spice grounded
- Get 1 bowl chopped almonds
- Get 1 bowl chopped walnuts
- Get 2 tbsp olive oil
How to bake the rich Christmas Fruit cake without soaking the fruits: The day before you are going to bake the cake, set the soaking liquid in a saucepan on the stove on low flame. Add the dried fruits and bring the mixture gently to a simmer, keeping the heat low so that the liquid does not boil away. Alice, your Christmas Cake is beautiful- it looks like it is completely worth all the work you put into it! It makes such a lovely family tradition.
Steps to make Christmas rich fruit cake:
- Mix the fruits and soak in orange juice prior 3 days to bake cake
- Mix the butter stick along with brown sugar and blend well until a creamy texture forms
- Add in the almond flour and pour one egg at a time and continue whisking, at this point add the soaked fruits and nuts, oil and spice add in flour by sieving it so that no lumps are formed
- Mix well with spatula to form a dense mixture until cake batter is ready, meanwhile coat the cake pan with butter
- Set the oven at 300 deg f and slow bake for 2 and 1/2 hrs and check in between with skewer to judge its softness.
Alice, your Christmas Cake is beautiful- it looks like it is completely worth all the work you put into it! It makes such a lovely family tradition. Now add the prepared caramel syrup, again continue mixing on low speed, till well mixed. For me it is Old Fashioned Rich & Moist Christmas Fruitcake. I love any kind of cake with any kind of filling but on Christmas a rich fruitcake is a 'must' thing for me.
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