Fruit cake
Fruit cake

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, fruit cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Fruitcake (or fruit cake or fruit bread) is a cake made with candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and optionally soaked in spirits. In the United Kingdom, certain rich versions may be iced and decorated. Fruitcakes are typically served in celebration of weddings and Christmas.

Fruit cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Fruit cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook fruit cake using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Fruit cake:
  1. Take 150 ml brandy or rum
  2. Make ready 500 g dried fruit
  3. Prepare 100 g glace cherries
  4. Make ready 250 g brown sugar
  5. Prepare 175 g butter/margarine
  6. Take 250 g All purpose flour
  7. Prepare 1 teaspoon baking powder
  8. Make ready 1 teaspoon mixed spice
  9. Make ready 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  10. Take 3 large eggs

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Instructions to make Fruit cake:
  1. Pour dried mixed fruit into a bowl then pour over brandy/rum. Allow to soak for at least 6 hours.
  2. When ready to bake, set oven to 180 degrees centigrade. Butter an 8inch pan and dust with flour.
  3. In a saucepan, put butter, sugar, 150ml rum or brandy (water can be used as an alternative) and mixed fruits. Set on medium heat to simmer for 10 minutes. Cool for 15 minutes.
  4. Beat eggs and pour into sugar/fruit mixture. Stir. Add baking powder and mixed spice into flour. Pour into sugar fruit mixture and stir until mixed in.
  5. Leave cake in the pan to cool for at least 20 minutes. Turn out from pan and allow to cool. Wrap cake and feed with brandy once a week.
  6. Spoon batter into pan and bake until cake is done (when a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean)

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