Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, christmas fruit cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Christmas Fruit cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Christmas Fruit cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have christmas fruit cake using 15 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Fruit cake:
- Make ready 220 Gram All purpose flour
- Get 220 Gram Muscavado dark sugar
- Take 220 Gram Butter
- Prepare 800 Gram Mixed fruits and raisins
- Get 50 gram almond powder
- Get 1 tbsp treacle
- Get 3 large eggs
- Prepare 1 pack Marzipan ready to roll
- Take 1 pack ready to roll fondant
- Take 1 pack decorating stars edible
- Make ready 85 ml Brandy
- Take 1 lemon zest
- Get 1 orange zest
- Get Few almonds as topping
- Make ready Apricot jam
Instructions to make Christmas Fruit cake:
- In a large bowl with mixed dried fruit, Add the brandy and give a good mix. Then cover with clingfilm and soak for 3 nights in the fridge.
- On the fourth day(after 3 nights of soaking mixed fruits in brandy), Grease and line a 20cm cake tin, preferably with a removable base.
- Preheat the oven to 150°C.
- With an electric mixer, beat the butter with the sugar and black treacle until paler and fluffy. Gradually add the eggs, beating each one at a time.
- Add the flour and mix with spatula. I don't use electric mixer for the flour.
- Now add the mixed fruits, almond powder. It might look a bit messy at this point but that's how it would be.
- Pour into the pan. Top it with almonds. This will help for good appearance Incase we don't have time to decorate later!
- Cover the pan with parchment paper to overturn the top layer. Keep the pan in oven for 3 hours at 140 *C
- Switch off oven. Allow cake to cool down.
- Keep in airtight container.
- On the day of decorating, knead the marzipan and roll it over. I did according to Waitrose video on YouTube.
- You need 2 TSP apricot jam a bit heated to apply on cake so that marzipan sticks to it.
- 12 hours after marzipan dried, I applied the fondant icing similar to how marzipan was kneaded, rolled and stuck on cake. Cut out the edges.
- Then stick the edible stars
- Keep in airtight cake container until ready to display.
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