Steps to Make Perfect Christmas Fruit cake

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, christmas fruit cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Christmas Fruit cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Christmas Fruit cake is something that I have loved my whole life.

The traditionalists out there will enjoy the old English fruitcake, brandied fruitcake, and citrus fruitcake to go with Christmas dinner. If you want try a new, delicious fruitcake recipe, we recommend a batch of the fruitcake holiday cookies , fruitcake homemade cheesecake, and even an eggnog recipe that infuses fruitcake challah with the. It's a shame that fruitcake as a species gets such a bad rap. With its two key ingredients–rum and butter–it ought to be a hit.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook christmas fruit cake using 15 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Christmas Fruit cake:

1. Prepare 220 Gram All purpose flour
2. Make ready 220 Gram Muscavado dark sugar
3. Make ready 220 Gram Butter
4. Make ready 800 Gram Mixed fruits and raisins
5. Take 50 gram almond powder
6. Make ready 1 tbsp treacle
7. Make ready 3 large eggs
8. Make ready 1 pack Marzipan ready to roll
9. Prepare 1 pack ready to roll fondant
10. Take 1 pack decorating stars edible
11. Make ready 85 ml Brandy
12. Make ready 1 lemon zest
13. Get 1 orange zest
14. Make ready Few almonds as topping
15. Take Apricot jam

Fruit cake is a traditional British Christmas cake that is full of fruits and nuts and laced with alcohol, usually brandy. This gives the fruit cake a subtle brandy flavor and a moist texture, plus it also allows the fruit cake to be stored for a long time. The holiday season presents a prickly moral dilemma for my mother. Her signature dessert is a meticulously faithful execution of Great-Aunt Margaret's Christmas fruitcake recipe, which must be soaked in peach brandy.

Steps to make Christmas Fruit cake:

1. In a large bowl with mixed dried fruit, Add the brandy and give a good mix. Then cover with clingfilm and soak for 3 nights in the fridge.
2. On the fourth day(after 3 nights of soaking mixed fruits in brandy), Grease and line a 20cm cake tin, preferably with a removable base.
3. Preheat the oven to 150°C.
4. With an electric mixer, beat the butter with the sugar and black treacle until paler and fluffy. Gradually add the eggs, beating each one at a time.
5. Add the flour and mix with spatula. I don't use electric mixer for the flour.
6. Now add the mixed fruits, almond powder. It might look a bit messy at this point but that's how it would be.
7. Pour into the pan. Top it with almonds. This will help for good appearance Incase we don't have time to decorate later!
8. Cover the pan with parchment paper to overturn the top layer. Keep the pan in oven for 3 hours at 140 *C
9. Switch off oven. Allow cake to cool down.
10. Keep in airtight container.
11. On the day of decorating, knead the marzipan and roll it over. I did according to Waitrose video on YouTube.
12. You need 2 TSP apricot jam a bit heated to apply on cake so that marzipan sticks to it.
13. 12 hours after marzipan dried, I applied the fondant icing similar to how marzipan was kneaded, rolled and stuck on cake. Cut out the edges.
14. Then stick the edible stars
15. Keep in airtight cake container until ready to display.

The holiday season presents a prickly moral dilemma for my mother. Her signature dessert is a meticulously faithful execution of Great-Aunt Margaret's Christmas fruitcake recipe, which must be soaked in peach brandy. But Mama's a Southern Baptist, so drinkin's a sin. Here in Canada, the fruit cake is commonly known as a Christmas cake and commonly consumed during the Christmas season. Truth be told, it is rarely seen during any other time of the year.

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