Hello, I’m Kate. Today, we’re going to make fruit cake recipe. Never skip today’s recipe. This is a simple recipe to try and is one of my family food recipes. Nowadays, I am going to make it a little bit tastier. This will be really delicious. Not to mention, it’s super satisfying.
Fruit cake Recipe
Fruit cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Fruit cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook fruit cake using 16 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Fruit cake:
- Prepare 1/4 th cup Raisins or golden kismis
- Take 1/4 th cup Sultanas or black raisins
- Get 1/4 th cup chopped dates
- Make ready 1/4 th cup dry dates/ dry plums or khubani
- Take 1/4 th cup Orange marmalade
- Take 1/2 cup Orange juice or grape juice
- Prepare 1 tsp Orange zest
- Get 1/2 cup assorted chopped nuts
- Get 1 +1/2 cup All purpose flour
- Prepare 1 cup soft unsalted butter
- Make ready 1 cup brown sugar
- Prepare 3 eggs
- Make ready 1 +1/2 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp mix spice(nutmeg, cinnamon & dry ger)
- Take 1 tsp vanilla essence
- Make ready 1 pinch salt
Instructions to make Fruit cake:
- Take a glass. Add all the dry fruits, orange marmalade, orange zest and fruit juice.
- Mix, cover and keep aside for 4-5 hours in room temperature.
- After 4-5 hours, keep the glass in the refrigerator for 2-3 days so that dry fruits soak the juice completely.
- The day you want to bake the cake, take out the glass from the refrigerator, at least 4-5 hours before baking.
- Now start making the cake.
- Cream butter and sugar in a food processor or with a hand mixer. The mixture should be fluffy and creamy.
- Sieve together flour and baking powder.
- Pre heat oven at 180 degree Centigrade for 10 minutes.
- Now add eggs one by one to the butter mixture and whisk well for about 1-2 minutes. Don’t over beat.
- Add vanilla essence, spice powder, salt and assorted chopped nuts. Mix with a spatula. Keep some nuts separately to garnish.
- Add the flour, baking powder mixture and fold gently with cut and fold method.
- Now add the soaked dry frits and fold gently. If any juice left un soaked, discard that.
- Pour this batter in a greased and lined rounded(9 inch diameter) baking dish. The batter should be little thick in consistency.
- Tap the dish 2-3 times and garnish the top with the remaining assorted nuts.
- Bake it for about 40-45 minutes or till a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the cake.
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