Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, fruit cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Fruit cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Fruit cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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
- Make ready 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
- Prepare 1/4 th cup Orange marmalade
- Get 1/2 cup Orange juice or grape juice
- Take 1 tsp Orange zest
- Make ready 1/2 cup assorted chopped nuts
- Make ready 1 +1/2 cup All purpose flour
- Prepare 1 cup soft unsalted butter
- Take 1 cup brown sugar
- Get 3 eggs
- Get 1 +1/2 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp mix spice(nutmeg, cinnamon & dry ginger)
- Get 1 tsp vanilla essence
- Take 1 pinch salt
Add egg and milk to make a soft dropping consistency. Everyday Fruit Cake This Everyday Fruit Cake, cooked in a loaf tin, is almost apologetically easy. Just weigh, stir and cook, which is just as well for me because it's in great demand in our house. For special occasions, I will make something that takes more effort but, for everyday eating, this cake is perfect - tasty, quick and easy.
Steps 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.
Just weigh, stir and cook, which is just as well for me because it's in great demand in our house. For special occasions, I will make something that takes more effort but, for everyday eating, this cake is perfect - tasty, quick and easy. This is an absolute delicious fruit cake! Add the eggs and milk and beat for a few seconds, gradually add the flour and continue beating till well mixed. In a large bowl, cream the butter or vegetable spread and sugar with an electric mixer or wooden spoon until fluffy, then add the eggs a little at a time, beating well between each addition to prevent curdling.
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