Christmas Cake Recipe - Easy Fruit Cake that's beautifully moist!
An easy Christmas cake that turns out perfect every time. No creaming, beating or soaking of fruit required! Plus tips on storage and feeding your Christmas cake.
Feeding your fruit cake in the weeks leading up to Christmas helps to build and intensify the flavour of the cake, and will ensure it's beautifully moist.
Oven Temp:
Bake in the oven at 150C/300F (fan) for 45 minutes, then 140C/275F (fan) for a further 60-75 minutes - until an inserted skewer comes out clean.
Alcohol-free Christmas Cake:
For a non-alcoholic version, you can replace the alcohol with cold tea, fresh orange or apple juice.
You can then feed the cake with either:
1. Cold tea
2. Fresh orange or apple juice
3. Ginger cordial mixed with water (2 tsp mixed with 2 tbsp water)
4. Rum flavouring mixed with water (⅛ tsp mixed with 2 tbsp water).
If you do this, don’t make the cake any earlier than November, as juice (as opposed to alcohol) could start tasting funny after more than a couple of months.
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The easy fruit cake ingredients:
3/4 cup (175g) unsalted butter, chopped
1 packed cup (210g) light brown muscavado sugar
2 + 2/3 cups (400g) mixed dried fruit
1 cup (200g) glacé cherries roughly chopped
1 cup (100g) dried cranberries
Zest and juice of 1 orange
Zest of 1 lemon
1/2 cup (120ml) cherry brandy
1/2 cup (85g) ground almonds (coarsely ground - not the type that is like flour)
3 large eggs lightly whisked
1 + 2/3 cup (200g) plain/all-purpose flour
½ tsp baking powder
1 tsp ground mixed spice
1 tsp ground cinnamon
¼ tsp ground allspice
To feed the Christmas cake:
Cherry brandy (1-2 tbsp per week)
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plum brandy recipe (no distillation)
Alright guys? Want to make some plum brandy?
Of course you do, why wouldn't you. Here in the UK plums are growing like crazy, you just got to know where to look. (I heard they grow like crazy in the fruit aisle of Aldi)
Jokes aside, plum brandy is a delicious tipple to indulge in. The issue is that usual 'plum brandy' is a fruit brandy in where instead of distilling fermented grapes, you distil plums instead. Which is basically unattainable for 95% of home drink enthusiasts, and even if you do have the equipment to ferment and distil at home, its not the cheapest method nor is it the most safe.
Today, we're going to make a plum brandy that can easily be done at home by just about anyone. No distilling, 'no fermenting, no expert knowledge' needed. All you need is 3 ingredients and 3 pieces of equipment.
Ingredients:
- Plums
- Sugar
- Brandy
Equipment:
- A big jar
- A funnel
- Some scales
You see? this home made plum brandy recipe is just about as easy as it gets, not to mention blooming well delicious. Sure, it takes longer then distilling but hey, you have way more control over it.
This plum brandy in particular is going to be used for a shelf stable, preserved, delicious, autumn/winter cocktail which we will whip up and bottle in 2 months time so make sure you stick around to learn how I do that. We might even bottle them up with labels and wax seals to make them look pretty, who knows. It's going to be fantastic.
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Let's be honest, I'm averaging out at around 50 views per video here. Ain't no one reading this, I can say whatever I want - plump plumy plop ploop.
However, if you're actually reading this then I apologies for going of topic, and to my 50 viewers out there, love you guys, keep on doing you.
To get back to the topic at hand - This plum brandy is a must try and fun little project. Even if you don't drink it you can just give it away as a gift to someone who will like it.
Plum varieties will vary massively but the recipe and end taste will stay pretty much the same, I used mirabelle plums which grow near my house.
mirabelle plums are little yellow plums that can turn red (you can eat them yellow or red) and grow in trees. Look out for them on your next walk.
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I Turned 44 lb Of Peaches Into Brandy. You Can Too!
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I got my hands on 44 pounds of peaches so its time to make peach brandy or peach rakia!
If you want to make your own you can follow this recipe:
Use whatever amount of peaches you want. I used 20 kg / 44lb and it ended up making around 4 l at 45%.
Process the peaches down into bite-sized bits.
Just cover them with water.
Blits them up with a paint mixer or food processor stick.
Add pectic enzymes.
Let sit for 4-12 hours to thin.
Blits them again with paint mixer or food processor stick.
(optional) Increase gravity to 1.065 with sugar.
Pitch K1V116 yeast.
Leave to ferment until gravity stabilises near 1.00
Strain the wash and perform stripping runs.
Spirit run again as a pot still (or perhaps use a couple of bubble plates)
Make good cuts!
Age some of the spirit on oak if desired.
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0:00 Hundreds Of Peaches
0:46 Processing
2:24 Dam Robots!
4:10 Into The Fermenter
5:38 Dastardly Sugar
6:45 Let's Talk Yeast
8:34 Separating Wash
10:33 T500 Mod
11:33 Stripping Run
12:58 Spirit Run
15:23 Selecting Cuts
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