Rich Fruit Cake
Rich Fruit Cake

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, rich fruit cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Rich Fruit Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Rich Fruit Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

Sift the flour, spices, cocoa powder and ½ tsp salt together. Mix a third of this mixture into the soaked fruit. Cream the butter, zests and sugar until light and fluffy, stir in the treacle, then beat in the eggs one at a time.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook rich fruit cake using 15 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Rich Fruit Cake:
  1. Get 1 . 1 Cups golden Raisin
  2. Prepare 2.1 Cups Raisin black
  3. Prepare 3.1 Cups Apricot chopped dried
  4. Make ready 4.1/2 Cup dates chopped
  5. Make ready 5.1/2 Cup ginger peel
  6. Take 6.1/2 Cup Orange peel
  7. Prepare 7.1/2 Cup Cherry dried
  8. Get 4 Tablespoons brandy
  9. Make ready 1 Cup butter
  10. Make ready 1 Cup brown sugar
  11. Make ready 4 eggs
  12. Take 13/4 Cups all purpose flour
  13. Take 1 Teaspoon baking powder
  14. Get 1/2 Cup grape juice
  15. Prepare 1/2 Teaspoon Cinnamon powder

When the cake is cold wrap in double greaseproof paper and store in an airtight tin. First poke little holes in the cake with a knitting needle or a skewer. Come Christmas you will have a very very rich fruit cake. A rich fruit cake or fruitcake recipe is a perfect blend of fruit and nuts in a cake batter that uses brown sugar as a base.

Steps to make Rich Fruit Cake:
  1. Place the ingredients 1 to 7 in a jar(i used small bharani) and stir in the brandy and grape jiuce. Cover and keep aside for 20 days stirring occasionally.
  2. Pre-heat oven to 300F / 150C. i used an 8 inch pan.
  3. Transfer the soaked dry fruits on a clean counter surface and sprinkle 2 tbsp or two of flour over it. Toss to coat well. This prevents the fruit from sinking to the bottom of the cake while baking.
  4. Sift the remaining flour, cinnamon powder and baking powder together well.
  5. In a separate bowl cream the butter and sugar together until the mixtures is creamy and now beat the eggs into it 1 at a time.
  6. Add in the flour mixture to it an fold it.
  7. Add fruit mixture to butter mixture and fold until combined.
  8. Spoon the cake batter into the prepared tins till half full and smooth the surface making a slight depression in the center with the back of the spoon.
  9. Bake for 2 to 2 1/2 hours or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
  10. Drizzle remaining 2 tablespoons brandy over cake while still hot. Allow the cake to cool completely. Remove cake from pan and dust with icing sugar. Serve.

Flavored with warm spices such as ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves or cardamom. Traditionally alcohol was used to ripen the cake but orange juice works just as well. The blend of these ingredients together creates a. Rich fruit cake is something that we love to have especially during Christmas. Packed with so much dried fruits this traditional rich fruit cake is going to taste good from the day it is made..

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