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.
The full Christmas cake recipe is available on our site:
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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Mixed Fruit Cake With Alcohol (Red Wine) Recipe
200g Mixed Fruits
200g Black Raisins
200ml Juice and Zest from 2 Oranges
50ml of Red Wine (optional)
250g Butter
50g Sugar
4 Eggs
240g Plain Flour
Red Wine/Rum/Brandy to brush onto cake
Bake 150C for 1.5 hours
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INGREDIENTS & PROCESS:
Soaking Fruit:
¼ Cup Tutti Frutti
2 Tbsp Red Cherry
2 Tbsp Apricot
2 Tbsp Black Raisin
2 Tbsp Golden Raisin
2 Tbsp Red Raisin
2 Tbsp Dates
1/3 Cup Fresh Orange Juice
Soak For 30 Min.
Separate 2 Tbsb Fruits For Using Later
1 Cup Flour
1 Tspn Baking Powder
½ Tspn Baking Soda
½ Tspn Cinnamon Powder
¼ Tspn Nutmeg Powder
Sieve
½ Cup Brown Sugar
Soaked Fruits
1 Tspn Orange Zest
1 Tbsp Pichtachio
1 Tbsp Almond
1 Tbsp Cashew Nut
¼ Cup Butter
¾ Cup Milk
1 Tspn Vanilla
Mix Well
6 Inch Oil Greased Mould With Baking Paper
Pour The Batter
Soaked Remaining Dry Fruits
Place A Pan With Wire Stand
Pre-Heat For 5-7 Min.
Place The Mould
Bake For 35- 40 Min.
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The good thing about this recipe, is the low quantity of alcohol used. Some fruit cakes recipe gives one type of after taste due to the excess of alcohol used in it.
Immediately you bring your cake out of the oven, and it’s cooled enough make sure you wrap up the cake with cling film to help for more extra softness.
When you expose your fruit cake, it becomes dry and hard.
For your fruit cakes, the longer it stays, the sweeter. it can stay in the freezer for a year, as far as you have constant power supply. (Talking from experience)
Always try to brush your fruit cakes with some brandy or any good alcohol and wrap up immediately.
Allow your fruit cakes to sit and mature before consumption.
RECIPE
380g of Mixed soaked Fruits fruits, raisins, etc
300g All Purpose Flour
250g Brown Sugar
250g Margarine / Butter
15g Mixed Spice
15g of cinamon
6 Large Eggs (Increase the Eggs if its small or medium)
2 tbsp Dark Treacle
2tbs the juice of Fresh Lemon or orange juice
1 tsp Orange or Lemon Zest
1/4 cup Brandy
1 tsp Baking Powder
Cashew, Mixed Fruits toppings are optional for you
Add 1 or 2 ring of oranges depending on your size of cake. This is also optional as well
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Plum Cake | No Soak Christmas Fruit Cake | Christmas Specials
A plum cake is good for all occasions, but perfect for Christmas! It is simple and the recipe might strike you as a bit different from traditional fruit cake recipes, because it is :) Developed by my daughter, this cake includes dark chocolate and wine which come together to create a flavour so divine and a cake so moist, it is indeed a Christmas Special!
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The inclusion of other dried fruits is up to you; I recommend roasting nuts rather than soaking them in wine as they impart a slight bitterness to the wine (which is why I don't add walnuts to the wine). The raisins need to be softened, so prepare a solution of warm water and sugar (about 2 tablespoons) and let the raisins remain completely immersed in that for 20 minutes.
For weight conversions you may refer to this:
100 grams of Dark Chocolate, chopped
100 grams of Prunes, chopped
50 grams of Raisins (seedless; that have been soaked in a warm solution of water and sugar for 20 minutes)
120 ml or 1/2 cup of Port Wine (or any sweet wine)
Heat the wine add the fruits and chocolate, mix and set aside till needed. The period of time till its addition into the batter is sufficient to soak.
40 grams of Walnuts, chopped (not to added to the wine)
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Grind the following spices:
1 inch of dried Ginger
1/4 piece of Nutmeg
2 inches of Cinnamon
20 ml Oil
30 grams (or 4 tablespoons) of Cocoa Powder
(make a paste of this with the ground spices)
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3 whole Eggs
100 grams or 1/2 cup of Sugar
100 grams or 1/4th cup + 3 tbsp of Salted butter (melted)
120 grams or 1 cup of All-purpose flour
1&1/2 teaspoon of Baking powder
The spices strengthen the flavour of the wine. Their quantities can be adjusted and tweaked to your liking.
Preheat the oven at 160 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes.
Bake at 160 degrees Celsius for 45-50 minutes, or till an inserted skewer comes out clean.
*Once baked, allow the cake to remain in the oven’s heat for 15 minutes, then open the oven door and let it cool gradually. This prevents excess shrinkage/contraction of the cake.
This cake tastes best when allowed to rest.
**When properly cooled, wrap in parchment and cover with a piece of cloth and let it rest overnight (basically, 10 hours or more); this locks up the moisture, allowing the flavour and texture to develop even further. After unmoulding, keep the baking parchment attached to the bottom, it acts as a seal to retain moisture (I took it off my cake for the purpose of the video). It can remain at room temperature for a week to 10 days or more if properly kept in a cool, dark and dry place; to ensure it doesn’t dry/spoil, keep it wrapped in parchment and cloth, allowing it to breathe occasionally.
Further, it can be refrigerated for weeks – just enclose it in two layers of parchment and then double layer of cling wrap after it has cooled completely.
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