Boiled fruit cake
Boiled fruit cake

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Boiled Fruit Cake. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. This Easy (Boiled) Fruit Cake is a much simpler version of the traditional British fruit cake. Yet it contains all the necessary ingredients.

Boiled fruit cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Boiled fruit cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have boiled fruit cake using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Boiled fruit cake:
  1. Prepare 500 g mixed fruit- I used raisins, dried cranberries, mixed peel
  2. Prepare 400 g tin of tropical fruit with juices- crushed
  3. Prepare 125 g butter - chopped
  4. Get 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
  5. Get 1 tablespoon brandy (sherry or orange juice is fine)
  6. Take 1 cup (250 ml) size) soft brown sugar
  7. Prepare 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  8. Make ready 1 cup (250 ml) size) self raising flour- you can use wholemeal
  9. Get 1 cup plain flour
  10. Get Grated nutmeg and orange peel
  11. Get 2 eggs, lightly beaten
  12. Get 180 C oven

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. By this simmering/boiling process, fruits will plump up similar to the soaked fruits. hence the name is 'Boiled fruit' cake.

Steps to make Boiled fruit cake:
  1. Place crushed tropical fruit, dried fruit, butter, sugar, vanilla essence and brandy in a saucepan and heat gently until the butter has melted.
  2. Bring mixtures to the boil and then simmer for approx. 5 minutes
  3. Cool
  4. Sift plain flour, self-raising flour and bicarbonate of soda together
  5. Add beaten eggs to cooled fruit mixture. Stir gently.
  6. Add dry flour mixture and stir.
  7. Place mixture in a prepared 20cm round cake tin. Sprinkle with sugar for a crunchy top (optional).
  8. 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.

The texture of this eggless boiled fruit cake is soft and moist. - Boiled Fruits And Nuts Cake. INTRODUCTION This is the traditional fruit cake baked in a rather traditional way. It is one type of fruit cakes that can be served during Christmas. 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. All the dried fruit ingredients in this fruit cake are boiled before cooking which makes it extra plump and moist.

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