Fruit cake
Fruit cake

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Fruitcake (or fruit cake or fruit bread) is a cake made with candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and optionally soaked in spirits. In the United Kingdom, certain rich versions may be iced and decorated. Fruitcakes are typically served in celebration of weddings and Christmas.

Fruit cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Fruit cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook fruit cake using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Fruit cake:
  1. Make ready 150 ml brandy or rum
  2. Get 500 g dried fruit
  3. Get 100 g glace cherries
  4. Make ready 250 g brown sugar
  5. Take 175 g butter/margarine
  6. Take 250 g All purpose flour
  7. Get 1 teaspoon baking powder
  8. Take 1 teaspoon mixed spice
  9. Take 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  10. Make ready 3 large eggs

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Steps to make Fruit cake:
  1. Pour dried mixed fruit into a bowl then pour over brandy/rum. Allow to soak for at least 6 hours.
  2. When ready to bake, set oven to 180 degrees centigrade. Butter an 8inch pan and dust with flour.
  3. In a saucepan, put butter, sugar, 150ml rum or brandy (water can be used as an alternative) and mixed fruits. Set on medium heat to simmer for 10 minutes. Cool for 15 minutes.
  4. Beat eggs and pour into sugar/fruit mixture. Stir. Add baking powder and mixed spice into flour. Pour into sugar fruit mixture and stir until mixed in.
  5. Leave cake in the pan to cool for at least 20 minutes. Turn out from pan and allow to cool. Wrap cake and feed with brandy once a week.
  6. Spoon batter into pan and bake until cake is done (when a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean)

Traditionally made months in advance of a celebration, like Christmas or a wedding, cakes with fruit soaked in alcohol, are festive. Either way, this fruit cake is a welcome addition to the holiday table. This easy Christmas fruitcake is perfect for the holidays. It's light, tender, and full of dried fruits and nuts. This Fruit Cake recipe is adapted from Nigel Slater's excellent 'The Kitchen Diaries' and it is by far the best one I have ever made.

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