Christmas Fruit Cake
Christmas Fruit Cake takes about 45 minutes from beginning to end. This dessert has 136 calories, 2g of protein, and 8g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 36. For 49 cents per serving, this recipe covers 5% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe from Foodista has 5 fans. Head to the store and pick up butter, orange zest, line a 8" cake tin, and a few other things to make it today. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free and lacto ovo vegetarian diet. Christmas will be even more special with this recipe. Overall, this recipe earns a rather bad spoonacular score of 15%. If you like this recipe, you might also like recipes such as Christmas Fruit Cake, Christmas Fruit Cake, and No bake Christmas fruit cake.
Directions
- Step 1 : Ingredients: Line a 8" square cake tin with two layers of parchment paper, bottom and sides of cake tin
- Step 2 : G Butter
- Step 3 : G Sugar
- Step 4 : Eggs
- Step 5 : G Plain flour (sifted with baking powder)
- Step 6 : Tsp Baking powder
- Step 7 : Tsp
- Step 8 : Mixed spice
- Step 9 : Mixed dried fruit
- Step 10 : G Pitted prune - cut to small pieces
- Step 11 : G Walnut - chop to small pieces
- Step 12 : Tbsp Rum
- Step 13 : Tbsp Orange juice
- Step 14 : Orange zest from one orange
- Step 15 : Tsp Vanilla extract
- Step 16 : In a large bowl add mixed dried fruit and pitted prune together with 8 tbsp of rum and mix well, cover with cling wrap until next day.
- Step 17 : Beat butter and sugar till light and fluffy, slowly add in rum, orange juice, orange zest and vanilla extract, mix well.
- Step 18 : Add eggs, one at a time and scrape bowl.
- Step 19 : Add 1/4 portion of flour to the mixed dried fruit. Slowly add 3/4 portion of flour and mixed spice to butter mixture, mix well. Stop machine.
- Step 20 : Pour in mixed dried fruit and chopped walnut, mix well with a rubber spatula then pour into cake tin. Bang tin on table once to settle the content.
- Step 21 : Bake at preheated oven at 160C for 1 1/2 hour. **After about 30-40 mins when the cake starts to turn brown, cover cake with foil loosely on top and continue baking.
- Step 22 : Pour 3-4 tbsp of rum on to Fruit Cake as soon as it comes from the oven.
- Step 23 : Leave cake to cool, turn out from cake tin and wrap with cling wrap and store in the fridge.
- Step 24 : Pour 2-3 tbsp of rum on cake every three days until it is ready to serve or giveaway as Christmas gift.
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