Dark Christmas Cake - Fruit Cake ???? Love It Or Hate It!
This Dark Christmas Fruit Cake is a fruitcake lovers dream! So this stir it up Sunday, this is the Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe you should be making!
Ingredients:
375 mL (1½ cups) candied pineapple
375 mL (1½ cups) candied cherries
500 mL (2 cups) currants
500 mL (2 cups) candied peel
375 mL (1½ cups) seedless raisins
250 mL (1 cup) brandy, rum, or bourbon
500 mL (2 cups) all-purpose flour
10 mL (2 tsp) baking powder
2 mL (½ tsp) baking soda
2 mL (½ tsp) salt
1 mL (¼ tsp) ground allspice
1 mL (¼ tsp) ground cloves
5 mL (1 tsp) ground cinnamon
2 mL (½ tsp) ground nutmeg
180g (175 mL / ¾ cup) butter, softened
170g (175 mL / ¾ cup) packed brown sugar
30 mL (2 Tbsp) molasses
60 mL (¼ cup) strawberry, or raspberry jam
5 eggs
200g (375 mL / 1½ cups) chopped walnut halves (pecans)
Method:
Chop up the pineapple and cherries.
In large bowl combine; pineapple, cherries, currants, raisins, mixed peel, and brandy; cover and leave on the counter for at least 24 hours, or up to a week; stirring occasionally.
Preheat oven to 150ºC (300°F).
Line base a 13 x 9 (3.5 L) metal cake pan with parchment paper.
In small bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, allspice, cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
In a really big bowl bowl; cream together butter and sugar.
When butter / sugar is light and fluffy beat in molasses and jam.
Then beat in eggs, 1 at a time.
Stir in flour mixture just until incorporated.
Add fruit mixture and walnuts; stir to combine.
Transfer to the prepared pan, smoothing top.
Bake cake for 1:45 to 2 hours, until cake tester inserted in centre comes out clean but a little sticky.
You may need to lay a piece of tinfoil over top during baking if it browns too much.
Let cool in pan on rack.
Soak a double-thickness of cheesecloth in more brandy; wrap the cake in the cheesecloth and then wrap in plastic wrap..
Refrigerate for as long as you can before eating.
This will keep in the fridge / freezer almost indefinitely if wrapped carefully.
**Tips:
Switch up the dried and candied fruit for anything you'd like to have in the cake - there is no 'right or wrong' way.
Switch up the alcohol of your choice for any that you prefer - or use apple / grape juice if you wish.
Fancy molasses gives a lighter flavour, but sometimes we'll use cooking or blackstrap. Sorghum or honey would also work.
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Christmas Cake - EASY moist fruit cake!
This is a speedy Christmas Cake that requires no overnight fruit soaking. It's a fruit cake that's incredibly easy to make, with a rich, velvety texture that's full flavoured and moist it can be eaten plain. But no one turns away a slosh of custard!
Terrific made on the day, keeps for ages, and it's just as delicious made with or without alcohol. Go wild with the decorations - or keep it simple!
Dark Fruit Cake, SIMPOL!
Try this festive fruit cake anytime of the year! The flavor just gets better and better as it sits in the fridge, so make sure to bake it ahead of time!
INGREDIENTS:
Set A:
1 1/2 cups raisins
1 1/2 cups glazed fruits
1 cup walnuts or pecans
3/4 cup cherries
1/2 cup brandy or rum
Set B:
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon cinnamon powder
1 teaspoon nutmeg powder
1 teaspoon allspice powder
1/4 teaspoon clove powder
1 teaspoon salt
Set C:
2/3 cup Golden Fiesta Palm Oil
1 cup brown sugar
2 whole eggs
4 tablespoons molasses
1 cup pineapple or orange juice
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Topping:
2 to 3 Tbsps. all-purpose flour, for dusting
Whole green and red cherries, as needed
Walnuts or pecans, as needed
Glaze:
1 cup rum or brandy
3/4 cup corn syrup
3/4 cup brandy, for soaking
Corn syrup, for brushing
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FRUIT CAKE - How to make FRUITCAKE Recipe
A Christmas cake that dates back to ancient Rome!! Deronda demonstrates how to make this modern America FRUIT CAKE... loaded with an assortment of dried fruits, nuts and a splash of brandy!! Don't pass up the Holidays without it!! Recipe below by clicking on show more...
FESTIVE HOLIDAY FRUIT CAKE
1 1/2 cups (12 oz.) Sunripe Fruit Cake Mix
1 1/2 cups (12 oz.) Candied Pineapple Wedges
8 oz. Candied Red Cherries
8 oz. Candied Green Cherries
1 cup dried apples, coarsely chopped
1 cup pitted dates, coarsely chopped
1 1/2 - 2 cups dark raisins or currants
1 cup pecans, coarsely chopped
1 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cups granulated sugar
3/4 cups packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
5 eggs
2 tablespoons dark molasses
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup bourbon or rum
1. In a large bowl add all dried fruits & nuts. Pour bourbon or rum over fruit and nuts. Toss. Let stand 2 to 3 hours, stirring occasionally.
2. Measure remaining ingredients into large mixing bowl. beat at medium speed until blended; beat at high speed 3 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally.
3. Stir fruit mixture into batter.
4. Spread fruitcake batter evenly in a very well greased and floured 12-cup fluted or angel cake pan, or 2 loaf pans. Press mixture firmly into pan(s).
5. Bake in a pre-heated 250 F. degree oven until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean, 3 to 3 1/2 hours.
6. Cool in pan on wire rack 20 minutes; invert onto wire rack and cool completely.
TIPS: Garish with whole cherries, pineapples and nuts. Store in an airtight container or wrap well plastic wrap and the tin foil.
ENJOY!!
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Super Moist Fruit Cake Recipe for Christmas /Simple and Easy Boiled Fruit Cake Recipe
Super moist Fruit Cake Recipe for Christmas /Simple and Easy Boiled Fruit Cake Recipe
Super moist fruit cake Complete Written Recipe:
This fruit cake is a simpler and easier version of making a traditional fruit cake or old-fashioned fruit cake.
In this Easy fruit cake recipe we don't need any soaking of dry fruits; but still the raisins,candied peels,cranberries and other dried fruits will be juicy and plumpy as they are boiled in liquid and then added into the cake batter.
This video will show you one of the least messy ways that we can make a fruit cake.We don't need any stand mixer/hand mixer to make this cake.A sauce pan and a wooden spoon are the only major tools to make this fruit cake.
In two steps we can make this super moist fruit cake batter.
Step1:
Boil the dry fruits in a sauce pan with butter sugar and water.
Step2:
Add all the rest of ingredients into this saucepan after its cooled.
Step3:
Bake the fruit cake @ 320 F for 75-90 minutes.
The cake is so soft and moist and the aroma of spices makes this fruit cake, more flavorful.
This fruit cake recipe is one of my favorite recipes to make moist fruit cake.
Hope you liked this super moist fruit cake recipe.
Hope you will make this fruit cake for this christmas.
And please let me know how it turned out for you.
Advanced Happy Christmas to all My Lovely MerryBakers :)
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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.
Christmas Fruit Cake Without Alcohol -
▶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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