Christmas fruit cake
Christmas fruit cake

Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, christmas fruit cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Christmas fruit cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Christmas fruit cake is something which I have loved my whole life.

This Christmas cake is absolutely wonderful. I've made several have substituted the mango with Papaya raisins etc My sisters and I always joke about getting Gramma a fruit cake for Christmas. There are different types of Southern.

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

The ingredients needed to make Christmas fruit cake:
  1. Make ready 1/2 -kg mixed raisins and sultanas
  2. Make ready 1 cup glace cherries (green and red)
  3. Get 1/2 -cup mixed dried peels
  4. Get 3/4 -cup brandy
  5. Get 1 cup sugar
  6. Get 1/4 -kg butter or margarine
  7. Get 4 eggs
  8. Take 1 1/2 - cups plain flour
  9. Prepare 1/2 cup self-raising flour
  10. Make ready 1 tbsp ground cinnamon and ground nutmeg mix

But the recipe shared here is an instant one which doesn't require you to soak them in advance. A classic Christmas fruit cake, the English style is indeed a nice kind of cake to have for the holidays. If it wasn't this huge drawback of having to make it so much in advance and then think about wrapping. Delia's Traditional Christmas Fruit Cake recipe.

Instructions to make Christmas fruit cake:
    1. In a bowl, mix the raisins, sultanas, cherries and mixed peel with brandy. Cover and set aside for three hours at room temperature.
  2. Pre-heat the oven to Gas mark 3. Prepare a cake tin by greasing and dusting lightly with flour or by lining it with parchment.
  3. Cream the sugar and butter/margarine in a bowl until light and creamy. Beat in the eggs gradually. Place in a large mixing bowl. Add the fruits and brandy mixture. Gently fold in the flour and spices.
  4. Pour the mixture into the cake tin. Place in the oven and bake for three hours or until it is firm to the touch and golden brown. Allow it to cool completely in the cake tin before turning it out. Slice and serve with a dollop of fresh cream.
  5. COOKING TIPS: -Using unsalted butter gives your cake a professional taste. -The Christmas fruit cake can be stored for up to 3 months. -Do not over beat the ingredients at any stage, to prevent the cake from becoming rubbery.
  6. Facebook: Irene Njoroge cooking tips

This a brand new, hot-off-the-press Christmas Cake, which we devised to make use of the excess vine fruits. Moist Christmas Fruit Cake - super flavorful fruit cake recipe that is moist and sure to please this holiday season, get the recipe. This easy Christmas fruitcake is perfect for the holidays. This fruitcake is our family's favorite, packed with dates, walnuts, raisins, and glazed cherries. Fruitcake (or fruit cake or fruit bread) is a cake made with candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and optionally soaked in spirits.

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