Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, boozy fruit soak for your christmas cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have boozy fruit soak for your christmas cake using 2 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Boozy Fruit Soak For Your Christmas Cake:
- Prepare 2 cups Chopped dried fruit and nut of your choice
- Make ready 1 cup dark rum
Speedy Christmas Cake that requires no overnight fruit soaking! Juice and/or booze - for a traditional boozy Christmas Cake, just. This Boozy Christmas Cake is AMAZING. It's a sweet rum cake filled with my homemade tutti frutti, golden raisins, pistachios and dates.
Steps to make Boozy Fruit Soak For Your Christmas Cake:
- Finely chop up the dried fruits and nuts.
- In a clean, dry glass or ceramic jar, add the chopped dry fruits and nuts and the rum. Mix well together with a wooden spoon.
- Seal the jar with a lid and keep in a cool, dry place away from sunlight.
- Every two or three days, give the fruit a mix and add about ¼ cup more rum if it looks too dry.
- You can throw in any dried fruit of your choice. I used dates, sultanas, a mixture of golden and black raisins, dried figs, dried apricot, and cashew. Candied Ginger and Orange are quite often added to the traditional cakes, but these don't favor my palate and hence I have left it out. Feel free to add in case you like these flavors.
- I have soaked Cashew along with the dried fruit. You really don't need to. If you like your nuts crisp, chop them and add along with an assortment of other nuts directly into your cake batter.
- You can also use Whiskey, Brandy, or good quality Port or Sherry to replace the rum used in the recipe.
- If you are looking at an alcohol-free version of cake, you can soak the dried fruit and nut in freshly squeezed orange juice. But please remember that such a cake will have a short shelf life as opposed to the cake containing alcohol soaked fruits.
- Please remember to use only glass or ceramic jars to soak the fruits. Metallic or plastic containers may not be your best choice as the alcohol may react with the metal or plastic which could be harmful.
I let my fruits soak for a week. This will soften the dried fruit - making for plump rum-soaked fruit. You can use any dried fruit you'd like but consider making my. A traditional brandy-soaked rich fruit cake is as boozy as it can get. The secret to making this boozy cake is making it ahead of time so the flavors mature and the alcohol has macerated with the fruit.
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