Hi, I am Marie. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare boiled fruit cake recipe. Never skip today’s recipe. This is a very easy recipe to try and is one of my family food recipes. Nowadays, I am going to make it a little bit more unique. This will be really delicious. Not to mention, it’s super satisfying.
Boiled fruit cake Recipe
Boiled fruit cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Boiled fruit cake is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook boiled fruit cake using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Boiled fruit cake:
- Take 500 g mixed fruit- I used raisins, dried cranberries, mixed peel
- Get 400 g tin of tropical fruit with juices- crushed
- Make ready 125 g butter - chopped
- Prepare 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- Prepare 1 tablespoon (sherry or orange juice is fine)
- Get 1 cup (250 ml) size) soft brown sugar
- Prepare 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- Get 1 cup (250 ml) size) self raising flour- you can use wholemeal
- Get 1 cup plain flour
- Make ready Grated nutmeg and orange peel
- Take 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- Prepare 180 C oven
Instructions to make Boiled fruit cake:
- Place crushed tropical fruit, dried fruit, butter, sugar, vanilla essence and in a saucepan and heat gently until the butter has melted.
- Bring mixtures to the boil and then simmer for approx. 5 minutes
- Cool
- Sift plain flour, self-raising flour and bicarbonate of soda together
- Add beaten eggs to cooled fruit mixture. Stir gently.
- Add dry flour mixture and stir.
- Place mixture in a prepared 20cm round cake tin. Sprinkle with sugar for a crunchy top (optional).
- 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.
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