Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, fruit cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Fruit cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Fruit cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook fruit cake using 16 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Fruit cake:
Prepare 1/4 th cup Raisins or golden kismis
Make ready 1/4 th cup Sultanas or black raisins
Get 1/4 th cup chopped dates
Get 1/4 th cup dry dates/ dry plums or khubani
Get 1/4 th cup Orange marmalade
Get 1/2 cup Orange juice or grape juice
Prepare 1 tsp Orange zest
Get 1/2 cup assorted chopped nuts
Take 1 +1/2 cup All purpose flour
Get 1 cup soft unsalted butter
Make ready 1 cup brown sugar
Get 3 eggs
Get 1 +1/2 tsp baking powder
Take 1/2 tsp mix spice(nutmeg, cinnamon & dry ginger)
Get 1 tsp vanilla essence
Prepare 1 pinch salt
Steps to make Fruit cake:
Take a glass. Add all the dry fruits, orange marmalade, orange zest and fruit juice.
Mix, cover and keep aside for 4-5 hours in room temperature.
After 4-5 hours, keep the glass in the refrigerator for 2-3 days so that dry fruits soak the juice completely.
The day you want to bake the cake, take out the glass from the refrigerator, at least 4-5 hours before baking.
Now start making the cake.
Cream butter and sugar in a food processor or with a hand mixer. The mixture should be fluffy and creamy.
Sieve together flour and baking powder.
Pre heat oven at 180 degree Centigrade for 10 minutes.
Now add eggs one by one to the butter mixture and whisk well for about 1-2 minutes. Don't over beat.
Add vanilla essence, spice powder, salt and assorted chopped nuts. Mix with a spatula. Keep some nuts separately to garnish.
Add the flour, baking powder mixture and fold gently with cut and fold method.
Now add the soaked dry frits and fold gently. If any juice left un soaked, discard that.
Pour this batter in a greased and lined rounded(9 inch diameter) baking dish. The batter should be little thick in consistency.
Tap the dish 2-3 times and garnish the top with the remaining assorted nuts.
Bake it for about 40-45 minutes or till a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the cake.
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