Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, boiled fruit cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Boiled fruit cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Boiled fruit cake is something that I have loved my whole life.
Boiled Fruit Cake. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Place soaked fruit, water, butter, golden syrup and sugar in a saucepan. This Easy (Boiled) Fruit Cake is a much simpler version of the traditional British fruit cake.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have boiled fruit cake using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Boiled fruit cake:
- Prepare 500 g mixed fruit- I used raisins, dried cranberries, mixed peel
- Get 400 g tin of tropical fruit with juices- crushed
- Prepare 125 g butter - chopped
- Prepare 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- Make ready 1 tablespoon brandy (sherry or orange juice is fine)
- Take 1 cup (250 ml) size) soft brown sugar
- Take 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- Make ready 1 cup (250 ml) size) self raising flour- you can use wholemeal
- Prepare 1 cup plain flour
- Take Grated nutmeg and orange peel
- Take 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- Get 180 C oven
Place the mixed fruit and nuts. You don't boil the cake, just the ingredients before you bake it. This is a Northern Ireland recipe given to me by my mum many years ago! You don't boil the cake, just the ingredients before you.
Steps to make Boiled fruit cake:
- Place crushed tropical fruit, dried fruit, butter, sugar, vanilla essence and brandy in a saucepan and heat gently until the butter has melted.
- Bring mixtures to the boil and then simmer for approx. 5 minutes
- Cool
- Sift plain flour, self-raising flour and bicarbonate of soda together
- Add beaten eggs to cooled fruit mixture. Stir gently.
- Add dry flour mixture and stir.
- Place mixture in a prepared 20cm round cake tin. Sprinkle with sugar for a crunchy top (optional).
- Bake 180C for approx 1.5 hours. Skewer test the middle after 1 hour 15 minutes to check if the cake is cooked or needs a little longer. Cool slightly then turn out onto a wire rack to cool fully.
A Very Moist Fruit Cake - passed down from my nan. This recipe has been submitted by the Good Food community. With it being the summer holidays, the girls and I have done lots of picnics on our days out and this cake is excellent for picnics. By this simmering/boiling process, fruits will plump up similar to the soaked fruits. hence the name is 'Boiled fruit' cake. The texture of this eggless boiled fruit cake is soft and moist.
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