How To make Little Fruit Cakes

Prevent Nuts & Dried Fruits from Sinking in Cakes | Last-Minute Baking Hacks

Learn how to stop nuts and dried fruits from sinking to the bottom of the cake by dusting the fruit with a little flour before adding to the cake. It will act like a glue and prevent the fruit from sinking.
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Jamaican Fruit cake | Christmas Cake| How to make Fruit cake

TIPS AND INGREDIENTS BELOW:

First of all, let me just say. The most important thing is flavour and that the baked cake is not too dry or too wet. I've probably had fruit cake of 20 different kinds of texture over the years in Jamaica.

I love Christmas cake and either a pudding texture or cake texture makes me happy as long as the flavour is amazing. THIS mixture will give you a more tender moist cakey crumby texture once cooled down. I will be posting another video with a more Puddingy???? texture in my dessert playlist. IT IS UP TO YOU TO PUREE YOUR FRUITS OR LEAVE THEM WHOLE.


For the soaked fruits:

The ratios of fruits are up to you however I often do:

4 cups raisins
3 cups prunes
2 cups currants
1 cup glace cherries

I place glace cherries, currants, raisins and chopped prunes in a glass container with ENOUGH white rum and red label wine TO COVER them (the liquid is maybe 1 inch or higher than the fruits) and let it sit in the sealed jar for one year. Other spices and flavorings can be added to the soak if desired)
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For the Cake:

This yields two eight inch cakes or 1 tall 9 inch cake. Please remember:
1.All of our ovens tend to run differently regardless of the set temperature so...use a skewer or toothpick into the cake at about the 1 hour and 20 or 35 minutes mark to check whether the cake is good or still too wet.

2. Bake the cake on the middle shelf of the oven. The top shelf may be too hot. Place a baking tray full of hot water on the SHELF BELOW to provide moisture while the cake bakes.

3.Spritz your cake daily or every other day with wine and/or rum.

4. Keep your cake covered properly to prevent drying out.

5. Keep your cake at room temperature. If you want to keep the cake for weeks then refrigerate BUT...sit out at room temperature when serving your guests. The longer any cake sits in the refrigerator the drier it gets so sitting it out of the fridge helps.
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✔Please wrap your cake properly in foil or plastic wrap or store in a sealable container at room temperature. The alcohol acts as a great preservative but for longer storage you may refrigerate the cake and let it sit at room temperature for awhile on the day you'd like to eat it.

✔You may use two 8 inch or two 9 inch cake tins

✔ If you don't have fruits soaked for a year, you have options:

1. Start soaking it now ???? or
2. Do stewed fruit which will be in my next fruit cake video later tonight or tomorrow
3. OR Just chop them finely add alcohol then puree it very smoothly without doing the soaking
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INGREDIENTS:
2 cups Unsalted butter (1 LB)

2 cups white sugar

1/2 cup SOFT brown sugar

6 LARGE eggs (use 8 for small eggs)

2 tsps grated lemon/lime zest

2 1/2 - 3 cups allpurpose flour (Sometimes I do 2 cups flour and 1 cup soft breadcrumbs)

1 1/2 tsp ground Cinnamon

1/2 tsp Ginger powder

1 1/2 tsp freshly ground nutmeg

1/2 tsp Coriander powder (It is an ingredient that is sometimes used in mixed spice)

1/2 tsp Ground allspice

1/4 tsp Ground cloves

3 tsps Baking powder

1 1/2 tsp salt

2 1/2 cups PUREED ALCOHOL SOAKED fruits

1 tbsp fancy mollasses

2 tbsps or more browning*

4 tbsps lemon juice

2 tbsps vanilla extract

1/4 tsp Almond essence

*Browning is a bottled burnt sugar/dark caramel sauce used in Caribbean Cooking to add a deep brown colour to creating food items.

Red label wine (add more to cake while warm and daily if desired)


White Rum (add more to cake while warm and daily if desired)


My other fruit cake video:

This super moist FRUIT CAKE recipe completely changed my mind about fruit cake!

RECIPE:
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Never in a million years did I think fruit cake would make it to my top 10 favourite cakes of all time! I literally despised fruit cake growing up, always finding it too dry or having too many sultanas. UNTIL I developed this super moist fruit cake recipe that is packed with fruit, nuts, dates and so much more!

INGREDIENTS LIST:

For accuracy, I would recommend using the gram measurements provided as those are the exact quantities I use. Cup measurements are given as estimates (based on US cup measurements) to make it easier for those who do not have a scale.

Fruit Cake
▢¾ cups (170 g) unsalted butter
▢¾ cups (150 g) soft brown sugar
▢2 cups (350 g) dried fruits - I used a combination of sultanas, raisins, currants, red and green glace cherries and citrus peel (see note 1 on blog post)
▢½ cup (100 g) dates - pitted and cut into small pieces, see note 2 on blog post
▢⅔ cups (166 g) store bought sweetened orange juice - like Just Juice, Tropicana etc.
▢1½ tbsp orange zest - the zest of about 1 medium sized orange. The juice of the orange will be used later in the syrup.
▢2 tbsp (36 g) molasses
▢1¾ cups (210 g) all purpose flour
▢1½ tsps baking powder
▢½ tsp salt
▢1½ tsps cinnamon powder
▢½ tsp ground ginger powder
▢¼ tsp nutmeg
▢1 tsp all spice
▢¼ cup (52 g) unflavoured vegetable oil - I use canola oil
▢3 large eggs
▢1 cup (100 g) walnuts - halved

Orange Syrup/Glaze
▢3 tbsp (50 g) freshly squeezed orange juice
▢1¾ tbsp (20 g) white granulated sugar

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Steel Turntable -
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Holiday Pecan Fruit Cake - Cooking From Scratch - Holiday Cake Recipes

Holiday Pecan Fruit Cake - Cooking From Scratch - Holiday Cake Recipes Recipe Download:

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Tammy’s Christmas Fruitcake (New Recipe is not in our Cookbooks)
For the Cake:
2 CUPS BUTTER
2 CUPS PACKED BROWN SUGAR
6 LARGE EGGS
2 TSP. APPLE PIE SPICE (PENZEY’S)
2 2/3 CUP SELF-RISING FLOUR (WHITE LILY)
1/2 CUP GRAPE JUICE
3 TBSP. VANILLA EXTRACT
3 1/2 CUPS CANDIED FRUIT
10 OZ. CHOPPED DATES
4 CUPS CHOPPED PECANS
Read the entire recipe before beginning. Do not
preheat the oven!
In a mixer mix the butter and sugar until fluffy. Add
eggs one at a time, beating in between.
Add Apple pie spice and vanilla extract. Add grape
juice and mix well. Add flour and beat for 2 minutes
on medium speed.
In a separate bowl add 1/3 CUP FLOUR then add your
fruit and mix until fruit is coated well with flour. Add
pecans and dates and mix well. Pour batter into bowl
with fruit and nuts. Mix well.
Spray pans with baking spray and fill 3/4 full of
batter. Put cake in a cold oven and then put on Bake
at 350 degrees and bake 30 minutes. Turn oven to
250 degrees and bake for 2-4 hours. Cook time will
vary depending on size and depth of cake. Cake must
be done before topping with fruit. After you top cake
cook another 30 minutes for pecans to toast.
For pecan and fruit topping:
JELLY OR MARMALADE (8OZ.) 1-2 CUPS OF LARGE
MIXED COLORED CANDIED FRUITS (YOUR CHOICE) I
LIKE RED AND GREEN CHERRIES.
4 CUPS OF WHOLE PECANS
Heat jelly (your choice apple or orange marmalade)
in a non-stick small pot or skillet.
Pour over fruit and mix until fruit and nuts are coated
well.
My choice of fruits:
8 oz. FRUIT AND PEEL OLD ENGLISH MIX OR EXTRA
FANCY (THESE ARE CHOPPED SMALL) (1 CUP)
8 OZ. TROPICAL MIX (1 CUP)
8 OZ. MIXED PINEAPPLE AND CHERRIES (HALF THESE)
10 OZ. CHOPPED DATES
TIPS:
WHEN YOU BUY FRUIT AND NUTS GET PLENTY FOR
TOP OF CAKES TOO!
DO NOT PLACE TOPPING ON CAKE BEFORE IT IS SET
IN MIDDLE OR IT WILL SINK DOWN INTO THE CAKE.
DO NOT USE OLD ENGLISH FRUIT UNLESS YOU TASTE
AND MAKE SURE YOU LIKE THE CITRON AND FRUITS,
REPLACE WITH OTHER MIXED FRUITS IF YOU DO NOT
LIKE IT.

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