Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, over night soaked 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.
Soak fruits for Christmas fruit cake about a month before Christmas - in the last week of November, but this time the soaking is just overnight. The next day, bake the cake, and touch up with alcohol once a week. The best Jamaican cake comes from a fruit that has been soaked for almost one year.
Over night soaked fruit cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Over night soaked fruit cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have over night soaked fruit cake using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Over night soaked fruit cake:
- Get 225 g plain flour
- Take 225 g butter
- Prepare 225 g dark brown sugar
- Prepare 4 eggs
- Get 2 tsp cinnamon
- Get 2 tsp mixed spice
- Prepare 1 kilo mixed fruit
- Get 750 fl orange/apple juice (brandy if wish)
Choose the best flavored alcohol and the best quality fruits. I use this mix to bake my Christmas cake, dutch plum cake, Easter cake and wedding fruit cakes. I only soak these dried fruits for my fruit cakes. The rest of the fruits and nuts will be added when baking.
Instructions to make Over night soaked fruit cake:
- Measure out all fruit and mixed with fluids. Leave overnight to soak up the liquid and expand the fruit.
- Preheat oven to 140 degrees
- Mix flour, sugar, spices, eggs and butter in a large mixing bowl. Mix until smooth
- Slowly add the fruit, mixing as you go.
- Transfer the cake into greased tins.
- Leave to cook for 4 hours, after look for a spongy top and a clean knife.
I promise it's easier than you think, and the taste of a homemade Christmas cake will always surpass a store-bought one. My grandmother Marga taught me the importance of fruit soaking for a great-tasting cake, and I think of her every year when I prepare my fruit. Here are my two favourite Christmas Cake Recipes. And here's how the making part goes down. The key step that makes this so much faster to make than other fruit cakes is the fruit soaking step.
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