Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. 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 unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Celebration (Xmas) 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 is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to 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:
- Get Dry Stuff
- Get 350 grams Plain Flour
- Get 2 teaspoon Cinnamon
- Take 2 teaspoons Mixed Spice
- Get Fruits
- Prepare 110 grams Chopped Candied Peel
- Prepare 110 grams Glacé Cherries, cut in half
- Take 2 Lemons Grated rind of
- Get 2 Oranges, Grated rind of
- Take 1 Kilogram Dried Fruits, (500grams sultanas, 500grams Seedless Raisins)
- Prepare Nuts (Optional!!)
- Make ready 110 grams Almonds
- Take 110 grams Walnuts
- Prepare 110 grams Hazelnuts
- Get Wet Stuff
- Prepare 4 large or 5 medium Eggs
- Make ready 2 tablespoons Brandy/Rum Or Milk !
- Get Sticky Stuff
- Make ready 300 grams Butter (or best Margarine)
- Get 300 grams Moist Dark Brown Sugar
- Get 3 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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