Super Moist Rich Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe - The Best & Easiest Traditional Christmas Cake Ever!
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Christmas cakes are made in many different ways. They can be light, dark, moist, dry, heavy, spongy etc. The cakes are made in many different shapes, with frosting, royal icing, a dusting of icing sugar or simple and plain.
This is is really simple, super moist and rich traditional Christmas Cake, loaded with juicy rum flavoured fruits in every single bite. The special taste of a fruit cake is mostly the aroma of that cake from the spices. The spices and dried fruits in the cake are supposed to represent the exotic eastern spices brought by the three Wise Men to the newborn King!
No special equipments are required to make this cake and the cool thing is that we will need just a wooden spoon to make this super delicious fruit cake.
Baking Time: 80-90 mins || Serves: 10-12 slices
Ingredients:
Plain flour: 225g or 1 and 3/4 cups
Butter: 227g or 1 cup
Sugar: 150g 3/4 cup cup
Mixed spice: 1 tsp (1/2 tsp Cinnamon, 2 Cardamom, 2 Cloves, 1/4 tsp nutmeg)
Baking powder:1 tsp
Baking soda: 1/2 tsp
Salt:1/2 tsp
Eggs (medium): 4
Vanilla Extract:1 tsp
Caramel Syrup : 3tbs [molasses/dark brown sugar]
Soaked mixed fruit: 3 - 4 cups [watch video:
Zest of 1 Orange
Orange Juice : 2-3 tbs
▶Substitute: You can use 'Dark brown soft sugar' instead of white sugar and skip caramel
My Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 150°C (300°F). Grease a 20cm (8) cake tin and line it with greaseproof paper.
2. Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and spice mix.
3. In a large bowl, beat together, the sugar & butter(at room temperature) until creamy. Gradually add the eggs, one by one.
4. Take the soaked fruits in a bowl and mix with the orange zest. You can add nuts (almond/walnuts/cashews - 1/2 cup) of your choice along with the fruits mix.
5. Add in the flour mixture and fruit mix into the egg mix and mix everything together, just until everything is well incorporated. This will help to avoid fruits sink at the bottom.
6. Spoon the completed mix into the cake tin. Pull a little dip back in the middle of the cake so that when it rises, it will level itself off better.
7. Bake in the centre of the oven for 1.5 hours(90 minutes). If it is browning a little too much cover it loosely with tinfoil after 60 minutes. The cake is cooked when a fine skewer, inserted into the centre, comes out clean and dry.
8. Make small holes all over the warm cake with a skewer and spoon the extra 50ml whiskey/ Wine/ Rum over the holes until it has all soaked in. Leave the cake to cool in the tin.
9. When the cake is cold, remove it from the tin, peel off the lining paper, then wrap it first in clean greaseproof paper / cling film and then in foil.
A small amount of brandy, sherry or whiskey (depending on your own favourite drink) should be spooned over the cake every week until Christmas. This process is called “feeding the cake”.
You also should turn the cake over, each week, before you pour another little bit of your favourite drink over it. This ensures that all that lovely alcohol penetrates to the very middle of the Christmas cake and definitely creates that Yum! factor on Christmas Day. Enjoy!
Tips:
▶ If you missed to prepare soaked fruits, soak the fruit overnight so it can absorb the alcohol and plump up. If you’re short on time, warm everything briefly in a microwave so the fruit will absorb the alcohol more quickly. Let the fruit cool completely before making the cake.
▶ For Non alcoholic version, soak the fruits in Orange juice/cranberry juice for couple of hours or leave it overnight in refrigerator.
Christmas Fruit Cake Without Alcohol -
▶How to make Caramel Syrup?
Add 1/2 cup sugar & 1 tbsp water in a sauce pan. Heat it & let the sugar melt. When the color of the melted sugar turns to golden brown to dark brown, remove the pan from fire & add 1/4 cup warm water to this. Be very careful at this stage, since the water tends to splash & can cause burns. Bring it back to the heat & boil for a few more mins, 3-4 mins or until it turns to honey consistency. Remove from fire & let it cool completely. You can prepare the caramel in advance & refrigerate it.
▶How to make Spice Powder?
Grind all the spices with a little sugar, to a fine powder in a mini grinder/coffee grinder
▶How to soak fruits for cake?
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Christmas Cake Recipe - Easy Fruit Cake that's beautifully moist!
An easy Christmas cake that turns out perfect every time. No creaming, beating or soaking of fruit required! Plus tips on storage and feeding your Christmas cake.
Feeding your fruit cake in the weeks leading up to Christmas helps to build and intensify the flavour of the cake, and will ensure it's beautifully moist.
Oven Temp:
Bake in the oven at 150C/300F (fan) for 45 minutes, then 140C/275F (fan) for a further 60-75 minutes - until an inserted skewer comes out clean.
Alcohol-free Christmas Cake:
For a non-alcoholic version, you can replace the alcohol with cold tea, fresh orange or apple juice.
You can then feed the cake with either:
1. Cold tea
2. Fresh orange or apple juice
3. Ginger cordial mixed with water (2 tsp mixed with 2 tbsp water)
4. Rum flavouring mixed with water (⅛ tsp mixed with 2 tbsp water).
If you do this, don’t make the cake any earlier than November, as juice (as opposed to alcohol) could start tasting funny after more than a couple of months.
The full Christmas cake recipe is available on our site:
The easy fruit cake ingredients:
3/4 cup (175g) unsalted butter, chopped
1 packed cup (210g) light brown muscavado sugar
2 + 2/3 cups (400g) mixed dried fruit
1 cup (200g) glacé cherries roughly chopped
1 cup (100g) dried cranberries
Zest and juice of 1 orange
Zest of 1 lemon
1/2 cup (120ml) cherry brandy
1/2 cup (85g) ground almonds (coarsely ground - not the type that is like flour)
3 large eggs lightly whisked
1 + 2/3 cup (200g) plain/all-purpose flour
½ tsp baking powder
1 tsp ground mixed spice
1 tsp ground cinnamon
¼ tsp ground allspice
To feed the Christmas cake:
Cherry brandy (1-2 tbsp per week)
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Ingredients:
1 cup mixed glazed fruits, chopped
½ cup dried apricots, chopped
½ cup dried cranberries
½ cup dark raisins
½ cup candied orange peel
1 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped
½ cup golden raisins
1 cup pecans
1 cup pitted dates
½ cup green candied cherries
½ cup red candied cherries
¾ cup rhum
1 ½ cup all purpose flour
1 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp allspice
½ tsp nutmeg
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
½ cup (113g) softened butter, unsalted
1 cup packed brown sugar
3 eggs, medium
⅓ cup molasses
2 tablespoons rhum
*Divide evenly into three 6x3x2.5 loaf pans greased and lined
*Bake in a preheated oven at 165C for 1 hr 30 mins or until toothpick inserted at the center comes out clean (you can opt to bake them using baine marie method for even cooking and prevent the cake from drying out or just bake them longer at lower temperature)
*Cool completely and brush all over with rhum or brandy
*Wrap them individually in aluminum foil and refrigerate. Avoid touching with bare hands to prevent spoilage
*Brush them again with rhum after a week then repeat brushing for four weeks
*To make a chocolate fruit cake, replace 1/2 cup of flour with alkalized unsweetened cocoa powder
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Easy Traditional English Christmas Cake Recipe
Some classic recipes are steeped in history and tradition, and English Christmas Cake is one such food. What Brits refer to as traditional Christmas cake, we Americans more commonly call fruit cake. Give this Easy English Christmas Cake recipe a try this holiday season.
I'm making this cake because an old friend makes it every year, and I asked her to teach me her recipe. She's an honest-to-God English woman, accent and all. So much so that I often have no idea what she is saying, even though she claims to be speaking English! The recipe she uses is passed down from her mother-in-law. I admit I'm not a fan of fruit cake, but she assured me I would like this version. And making this cake with her was a fun way to kick off the upcoming holiday season.
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How to make a 6 inch Traditional British Christmas Cake - For Beginners
Equipment used for this tutorial :
PME 6 inch cake tin :
2L Pyrex Bowl :
29cm Ceramic Mixing Bowl :
Pyrex Jug :
Set of 4 pink Wheat/Straw bowls (unbreakable) :
Hand Held Mixer :
Sieve : Purchased from Home Bargains for £1.20
Recipe for this 6 inch round Christmas Cake:
225g of Currants
75g of Sultanas
75g of Raisins
40g of Glazed Cherries
40g of Mixed Peel
(steeped in 2 - 4 tbsp of Brandy)
110g of Plain Flour
110g of Butter
100g of Muscovado Sugar or Soft Dark Brown Sugar
2 eggs
1 and a half tablespoons of Black Treacle (Molasses is a great subtitute for Black Treacle)
1 tbsp (optional) of Golden Syrup
Pinch Nutmeg (optional)
half teaspoon of Mixed Spice
Bake for 3 hours in pre heated oven 140c / 275f - Gas Mark 1
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Easy and Simple Fruit Cake Recipe ❗ SUBTITLES ❗
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Ingredients:
1 cup (16TBsp) 225g butter
2TBsp (45g) honey
2/3 cup (100g) brown sugar
zest of lemon
zest of orange
vanilla
spices
1tsp baking powder
1 2/3 cup (230g) flour
3 eggs
3/4 cup (100g) any nuts
3 cups (560g) dry fruits
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