Easy Fruit Cake (Classic Version) - Joyofbaking.com
Recipe here: Stephanie Jaworski of Joyofbaking.com demonstrates how to make an Easy Fruit Cake. The British Fruit Cake is traditionally served during the Christmas season. It is full of dried fruits and nuts, laced with alcohol over several weeks, and often covered with marzipan and royal icing. The problem is that it's both expensive to make and it needs time to age. Luckily, there is a much simpler version of this cake for the last minute baker, and I call it an Easy Fruit Cake.
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Mary Berry's Christmas Cake | delicious. Magazine
Mary Berry's classic Christmas cake is one of the most popular recipes on our website. The rich fruit cake is studded with plump dried fruits and finished with a good dash of brandy.
Serves
Ingredients:
425g currants
250g each sultanas and raisins
300g glacé cherries, quartered, rinsed and drained
150g ready-to-eat dried apricots, snipped into small pieces
75g mixed candied peel, roughly chopped
4 tbsp brandy, plus extra for pouring
300g plain flour
1 tsp ground mixed spice
½ tsp freshly grated nutmeg
300g softened unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing
300g dark muscovado sugar
5 medium free-range eggs
1 tbsp black treacle
Finely grated zest of 1 large lemon
Finely grated zest of 1 large orange
60g whole unblanched almonds, roughly chopped
Method:
1. Combine the dried fruit and candied peel in a large bowl. Add the 4 tbsp brandy and stir in to mix well. Cover and leave overnight.
2. Preheat the oven to 140°C/fan120°C/gas 1. Put the remaining ingredients except the almonds in a large bowl. Beat with a hand-held electric mixer until well combined. Stir in the nuts and the soaked fruit with any soaking liquid.
3. Grease a deep 23cm round tin or 20cm square cake tin with butter, line with a double layer of baking paper and grease the paper (see Golden Rules). Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin. Level the top and cover with a disc of baking paper.
4. Bake for 4-5 hours until firm to the touch and a skewer pushed into the middle comes out clean. Leave the cake to cool in the tin.
5. When the cake has cooled, remove the baking paper disc, pierce the top in several places with a skewer, then pour over a little brandy. Remove the cake from the tin but keep it in the baking paper. Wrap with more baking paper, then wrap with foil. Store in a cool place for up to 3 months to mature, occasionally unwrapping and spooning over 1-2 tbsp brandy.
6. Decorate the cake with glacé fruit, marzipan or ready-to-use icing. Tie a ribbon around the cake if you like before serving.
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Christmas plum cake recipe with rum | Easy rich fruit cake recipe | SONALI’S KITCHEN
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SOAKING FRUITS
in a large bowl add
100 g raisins
100g prunes
100 g blue berries
100 g crane berry
100 g black raisins
100 g apricot
50 g dried pineapple
50 g dates
1 tbsp orange zest
1/2 tsp lemon zest
1 tsp ginger powder
1 tbsp all spice powder (mix of nutmeg cloves and cinnamon)
1 cup orange juice
180 ml rum
mix it well,Cover with a cling film and close tight.
Let it soak overnight for alcohol,you can even soak for one week,I soak these mix fruits 2 days ago
After 2 days
Strain liquid completely
1 cup almonds cut into slices.
Add slice almonds into it.
Mix it well and set it aside.
To make the cake
In a large bowl or plate add 2 and a 1/2 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder ,Give it a good mix.
Add dry fruits into it ,give everything a good stir.This process helps to prevent the fruit from sinking to the bottom of the cake.Mix the flour and fruit thoroughly and stir through to break up any longer clumps of fruit.Mix until well combined and set it aside
Making the caramel
In a large vessel add
1 cup sugar
Turn the heat on and let this sugar melt down slowly you don’t want the heat very high cook on low heat.No need to stir just swirl the pan around.Once it’s started bubbling add 1/2 cup water.Boil for 10 seconds turn off the heat.Let it cool down completely .
For the batter
in a bowl add
200 g soft unsalted butter at room temperature
Beat until light and pale in colour .Into it add 200 g brown sugar
Mix until everything is nice combined,all of the sugar has dissolved and you are left with a nice light and fluffy mix,Now add 4 eggs at room temperature.Add eggs one at a time whisking in between each addition.Add 1 tsp vanilla essence.A pinch of salt.Mix it well
Into the fruit and flour mix add butter mixture
Into it add 120 ML of caramel that we have made earlier, Gently folds all the ingredients together.
Greased cake tin with melted butter,Brush butter paper with butter and place that into the cake tin
Poor mixture into the prepared cake pan.Garnish with some dry fruits
Into the preheated oven bake it on 160° for 90 minutes or until skewers comes out clean
Allow it to cool down slightly
Brush cake with rum
You can store this cake in a cool dark place for months
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Spiced Christmas Cake | Let’s Cook with Sonal
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‘Tis is the season of cheer, love and of course, a lot of desserts!
It’s everyone’s favorite time of the year when life is all about merry baking some gorgeous desserts in the kitchen and sipping on cups of hot chocolate sitting beside a beautiful Christmas tree. Eggless, spiced Christmas cake is festive and flavourful.
This homemade fruit cake is bursting with cheerful holiday spices and delicious citrus soaked fruits and nuts. Yes, you heard right, no egg plus no alcohol required for this recipe. This eggless Christmas cake that is made with the warmest of spices, is rich and absolutely delicious! With Christmas around the corner, choosing the right cake with rich seasonal flavours is a big deal. Though, you can get a traditional cake from any bakery, but what's better than baking a moist one at home for your loved ones? If you love baking goodies at home, then you need to bookmark this recipe for Christmas. This delicious Christmas Cake will be the talk of your evening event.Calling out people who crave sugar all the time, this cake will be a treat to their taste buds. Fruity flavours will take them on a jolly ride.
Be it kids or adults, this cake recipe is a must-try. I have used some basic dried fruits for this recipe, however, you can include a variety of dried fruits, nuts and even seeds to make the cake tastier. Your guests will be impressed, not only by how beautiful it appears but also how good it tastes. You can bake this Xmas-special cake in advance and store it in an airtight jar. This spongy Christmas cake will easily last a week.
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Super Moist Rich Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe - The Best & Easiest Traditional Christmas Cake Ever!
Classic Christmas Cake Recipe || Easy Fruit Cake || Christmas Plum cake || Rich and Moist Fruit Cake || Christmas Rum Cake || Traditional British Christmas Cake
Christmas cakes are made in many different ways. They can be light, dark, moist, dry, heavy, spongy etc. The cakes are made in many different shapes, with frosting, royal icing, a dusting of icing sugar or simple and plain.
This is is really simple, super moist and rich traditional Christmas Cake, loaded with juicy rum flavoured fruits in every single bite. The special taste of a fruit cake is mostly the aroma of that cake from the spices. The spices and dried fruits in the cake are supposed to represent the exotic eastern spices brought by the three Wise Men to the newborn King!
No special equipments are required to make this cake and the cool thing is that we will need just a wooden spoon to make this super delicious fruit cake.
Baking Time: 80-90 mins || Serves: 10-12 slices
Ingredients:
Plain flour: 225g or 1 and 3/4 cups
Butter: 227g or 1 cup
Sugar: 150g 3/4 cup cup
Mixed spice: 1 tsp (1/2 tsp Cinnamon, 2 Cardamom, 2 Cloves, 1/4 tsp nutmeg)
Baking powder:1 tsp
Baking soda: 1/2 tsp
Salt:1/2 tsp
Eggs (medium): 4
Vanilla Extract:1 tsp
Caramel Syrup : 3tbs [molasses/dark brown sugar]
Soaked mixed fruit: 3 - 4 cups [watch video:
Zest of 1 Orange
Orange Juice : 2-3 tbs
▶Substitute: You can use 'Dark brown soft sugar' instead of white sugar and skip caramel
My Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 150°C (300°F). Grease a 20cm (8) cake tin and line it with greaseproof paper.
2. Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and spice mix.
3. In a large bowl, beat together, the sugar & butter(at room temperature) until creamy. Gradually add the eggs, one by one.
4. Take the soaked fruits in a bowl and mix with the orange zest. You can add nuts (almond/walnuts/cashews - 1/2 cup) of your choice along with the fruits mix.
5. Add in the flour mixture and fruit mix into the egg mix and mix everything together, just until everything is well incorporated. This will help to avoid fruits sink at the bottom.
6. Spoon the completed mix into the cake tin. Pull a little dip back in the middle of the cake so that when it rises, it will level itself off better.
7. Bake in the centre of the oven for 1.5 hours(90 minutes). If it is browning a little too much cover it loosely with tinfoil after 60 minutes. The cake is cooked when a fine skewer, inserted into the centre, comes out clean and dry.
8. Make small holes all over the warm cake with a skewer and spoon the extra 50ml whiskey/ Wine/ Rum over the holes until it has all soaked in. Leave the cake to cool in the tin.
9. When the cake is cold, remove it from the tin, peel off the lining paper, then wrap it first in clean greaseproof paper / cling film and then in foil.
A small amount of brandy, sherry or whiskey (depending on your own favourite drink) should be spooned over the cake every week until Christmas. This process is called “feeding the cake”.
You also should turn the cake over, each week, before you pour another little bit of your favourite drink over it. This ensures that all that lovely alcohol penetrates to the very middle of the Christmas cake and definitely creates that Yum! factor on Christmas Day. Enjoy!
Tips:
▶ If you missed to prepare soaked fruits, soak the fruit overnight so it can absorb the alcohol and plump up. If you’re short on time, warm everything briefly in a microwave so the fruit will absorb the alcohol more quickly. Let the fruit cool completely before making the cake.
▶ For Non alcoholic version, soak the fruits in Orange juice/cranberry juice for couple of hours or leave it overnight in refrigerator.
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▶How to make Caramel Syrup?
Add 1/2 cup sugar & 1 tbsp water in a sauce pan. Heat it & let the sugar melt. When the color of the melted sugar turns to golden brown to dark brown, remove the pan from fire & add 1/4 cup warm water to this. Be very careful at this stage, since the water tends to splash & can cause burns. Bring it back to the heat & boil for a few more mins, 3-4 mins or until it turns to honey consistency. Remove from fire & let it cool completely. You can prepare the caramel in advance & refrigerate it.
▶How to make Spice Powder?
Grind all the spices with a little sugar, to a fine powder in a mini grinder/coffee grinder
▶How to soak fruits for cake?
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