Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, fruit cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. 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 is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Fruit cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook fruit cake using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Fruit cake:
- Take 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- Make ready 1 cup water
- Prepare 1/4 cup butter/margarine
- Make ready 1 tspn ground cinnamon
- Prepare 1/2 tspn ground cloves
- Make ready 1 tspn ground ginger
- Get 1/2 tspn salt
- Make ready 2 cups seedless raisins
- Take 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- Take 1 1/2 all purpose flour
- Get 1 tspn baking soda
- Prepare 1 tspn vanilla extract
- Prepare 1 cup candied and chopped mixed peel
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Instructions to make Fruit cake:
- Gather all your ingredients and prepare your baking tin
- In a cooking pot (sufuria) put your raisins, peels, sugar, butter, water, cinnamon, cloves, ginger and salt.
- Place in the pot in your cooker. Bring the ingredients to boil. Mix and let them simmer for 5 minutes. Stir in between.
- Turn off your cooker and let your mix cool to room temperature/ warm.This will ensure your eggs don’t cook when adding them. While cooling, preheat your oven at 180C.
- Once cooled add the eggs, vanilla essence, baking soda and flour. Mix all till incorporated. Don’t overdo it.
- Transfer your cake butter to baking tin and bake for 40 minutes or toothpick comes out clean.
- Serve with a cup of tea🤤🤤
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