Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake
Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, celebration (xmas) fruit cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

Christmas cake is a type of cake, often fruitcake, served at Christmas time in many countries. Christmas cake is an English tradition that began as plum porridge. Celebrate Christmas with a rich, moist fruitcake, or perhaps a modern sponge-based creation.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. 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:
  1. Get Dry Stuff
  2. Get 350 grams Plain Flour
  3. Make ready 2 teaspoon Cinnamon
  4. Take 2 teaspoons Mixed Spice
  5. Make ready Fruits
  6. Take 110 grams Chopped Candied Peel
  7. Get 110 grams Glacé Cherries, cut in half
  8. Take 2 Lemons Grated rind of
  9. Make ready 2 Oranges, Grated rind of
  10. Make ready 1 Kilogram Dried Fruits, (500grams sultanas, 500grams Seedless Raisins)
  11. Prepare Nuts (Optional!!)
  12. Prepare 110 grams Almonds
  13. Get 110 grams Walnuts
  14. Get 110 grams Hazelnuts
  15. Take Wet Stuff
  16. Get 4 large or 5 medium Eggs
  17. Prepare 2 tablespoons Brandy/Rum Or Milk !
  18. Get Sticky Stuff
  19. Prepare 300 grams Butter (or best Margarine)
  20. Prepare 300 grams Moist Dark Brown Sugar
  21. Prepare 3 level tablespoons Black Treacle(or Golden Syrup)

It's a fruit cake that's incredibly easy to make, with a rich, velvety texture that's full flavoured and so moist it can be eaten plain. But no one turns away a slosh of custard! Terrific made on the day, keeps for ages, and it's just as delicious made with or without alcohol. See more ideas about Fruit cake christmas, Fruitcake recipes, Fruit cake.

Instructions to make Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake:
  1. 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.
  2. Double layer of grease proof paper, enough to go around sides of tin. Grease and fit to sides of tin, overlapping the bottom layer
  3. 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.
  4. In a bowl, cream the butter, sugar and Black Treacle together.
  5. In another bowl, put the plain flour, cinnamon, mixed spices and salt. Use a whisk to gently mix it all until even.
  6. Break the eggs into a measuring jug or large cup, add Brandy/ Rum or milk and whisk lightly.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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!
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. This cake can be stored in an air-tight container for several weeks, or frozen, if required!
  13. 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.

Fruit cake haters, prepare to have your minds changed. The fruit cake The Beloved makes every year is Alton Brown fruit cake, and it is moist and fantastic! For the cake, place all the dried fruit, including the cherries, into a large mixing bowl, pour over the brandy and stir in the orange zest. Cover with clingfilm and leave to soak for three days, stirring daily. Sift all the dry ingredients - flour, salt, spices and ground almonds into a large Stir this into the flour and fruit mixture adding the lemon juice and booze.

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