Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, celebration (xmas) fruit cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have celebration (xmas) fruit cake using 21 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake:
- Prepare Dry Stuff
- Prepare Plain Flour
- Get Cinnamon
- Make ready Mixed Spice
- Prepare Fruits
- Take Chopped Candied Peel
- Prepare Glacé Cherries, cut in half
- Get Lemons Grated rind of
- Get Oranges, Grated rind of
- Get Dried Fruits, (500grams sultanas, 500grams Seedless Raisins)
- Take Nuts (Optional!!)
- Prepare Almonds
- Prepare Walnuts
- Take Hazelnuts
- Prepare Wet Stuff
- Make ready large or 5 medium Eggs
- Prepare Brandy/Rum Or Milk !
- Take Sticky Stuff
- Get Butter (or best Margarine)
- Get Moist Dark Brown Sugar
- Make ready level tablespoons Black Treacle(or Golden Syrup)
Instructions to make Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake:
- Prepare tins as follows. Double layer of grease proof paper, draw around the bottom of your tin. Grease paper, then cut to draw line, fit to bottom of tin.
- Double layer of grease proof paper, enough to go around sides of tin. Grease and fit to sides of tin, overlapping the bottom layer
- In a very large pan or bowl, mix all the dried fruits, rind of oranges and lemons, candied peel, cherries. Plus all the various nuts. Mix until evenly distributed.
- In a bowl, cream the butter, sugar and Black Treacle together.
- In another bowl, put the plain flour, cinnamon, mixed spices and salt. Use a whisk to gently mix it all until even.
- Break the eggs into a measuring jug or large cup, add Brandy/ Rum or milk and whisk lightly.
- Adding a little at a time, add egg mix and flour mix to the butter- sugar mix and combine until all has been used and smooth.
- Add this mix into the fruit- nut mix in the large bowl, mixing until everything is coated and even. The mix should be sticky and not very wet.
- Adding a bit at a time, put mix into your selected tins to 3/4 full. Dip your hand into a bowl of clean water and smooth down the cake mix, until raised slightly at the sides, gentle dip in the middle. (The cake will rise more in the center and you will end up with a level top!) Don’t worry if there is a small puddle, this will stop the top burning!
- Cook in a moderate oven(mark3. 160C. 325deg) for about 1 1/2 hours. Then turn down heat to Mark1-2, 140-150 C, 275-300deg, for a further two hours.
- Leave in tin about 30 minutes to cool. Then take out of the tin gently, into a wire rack to finish cooling completely before taking off the paper.
- This cake can be stored in an air-tight container for several weeks, or frozen, if required!
- If keeping for Xmas, a little Brandy or Rum, dribbled over the top, after piercing with a cocktail stick, after a month or so, then reseal.
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