Chocolate Christmas Fruit Cake
Chocolate Christmas Fruit Cake

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chocolate christmas fruit cake. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chocolate Christmas Fruit Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Chocolate Christmas Fruit Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

Save Time and Do Groceries Online Now. Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders! Place the fruit, butter, sugar, honey, coffee liqueur, orange juice and zest, mixed spice and cocoa into a large wide saucepan. Heat the mixture until it reaches a gentle boil, stirring the mixture.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chocolate christmas fruit cake using 17 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Christmas Fruit Cake:
  1. Make ready chopped Dry Fruits of your choice (Dates, Prunes, Cranberries, Figs, Raisins, Sultanas, Apricots)
  2. Prepare Dark Rum (Whisky, Sherry or Brandy will also do)
  3. Get Black raisins
  4. Get Dried soft prunes
  5. Get Honey
  6. Take Oranges, zest and juice
  7. Prepare Mixed spice- (cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg)
  8. Get Cocoa powder
  9. Make ready Grape Juice
  10. Get Butter
  11. Get Dark brown sugar
  12. Take Eggs
  13. Prepare All purpose Flour
  14. Take Ground almonds (with or without skin)-
  15. Prepare Baking powder
  16. Get Baking Soda
  17. Prepare Salt

Fold in apricots, chocolate, crystallised ginger and melted butter. Transfer mixture to prepared loaf tin. This chocolate fruit cake is a fun twist on the classic Christmas dessert. It's packed with flavor from rich chocolate, cranberries, figs, and apricots.

Steps to make Chocolate Christmas Fruit Cake:
  1. In a clean, dry glass jar, add the chopped dry fruits and the rum and mix well together with a wooden spoon. Seal the jar and keep in a cool, dry place away from sunlight. Every 2-3 days, give the fruit a mix and add about ¼ cup more rum if it looks too dry. You can soak the dry fruits for 1 – 4 weeks before you bake the cake.
  2. Reheat the oven to 150 degrees for 10 minutes. In a broad pan, add the raisins and chopped prunes. Add butter, mixed spice powder, dark brown sugar, honey, orange zest from 2 oranges and orange juice from 1 and 1/2 orange add remaining half at-last if needed.
  3. Add cocoa powder, grape juice and bring the mixture to boil in low flame. It takes about 5-8 minutes to start the mixture to bubble. Once the bubbles start to appear on the edges, switch off the gas and allow the mixture to cool for about 30 minutes. Prepare the cake tin by lining bottom and the sides of the cake. To protect the top of the cake from burning keep the side little larger the tin.
  4. In a blender jar, add the blanched or whole almonds and make a powder. In a separate bowl add the all purpose flour, ground almonds, baking powder, baking soda and salt together and mix with a whisk to combine well. After around 30 minutes, once the mixture has cooled a little, add the beaten eggs. Now add this flour almond mix into the fruit mixture and mix with a spatula until the ingredients have combined.
  5. If you feel the batter is thick drizzle little orange juice now to loosen the batter. Carefully pour the fruit cake mixture into the lined 20 cm with minimum of 7-8 cm height cake tin. Cover the cake tin with another wax paper on top to prevent the sides from burning. Transfer the cake tin to the oven and bake for around 1 and 3/4 to 2 hours, or until the top of the cake is firm. If you insert a sharp knife into the middle of the cake the knife should come out clean.

This chocolate fruit cake is a fun twist on the classic Christmas dessert. It's packed with flavor from rich chocolate, cranberries, figs, and apricots. This chocolate fruit cake is a little out of my comfort zone - but I just had to give it a try. Put the fruits, butter, sugar, honey, Tia Maria, orange juice and zest, spice and cocoa powder into a large, wide saucepan and gently bring to the boil, stirring as the butter melts. Nigella's Chocolate Fruit Cake (from FEAST) and Incredibly Easy Chocolate Fruit Cake (from NIGELLA CHRISTMAS are both simple to make as they are boil, mix and bake cakes and don't require pre-soaking of fruits.

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