Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, best and most moist christmas fruit cake ever. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Baking fruit cakes and Christmas pudding. To bake a fruit cake that is dense yet moist, bursting with deep and rich flavors, pleasantly spicy and Jewelled dried fruits - These dried fruits give that festive appearance to fruit cakes with their vibrant colors. Nothing smells more festive and christmas-y than this rich, old English cake.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook best and most moist christmas fruit cake ever using 16 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Best and Most Moist Christmas Fruit Cake ever:
- Take fruit mix - i.e - sultanas, raisins, currants, mixed peel
- Make ready plain flour
- Take butter
- Make ready brown Sugar
- Take Golden Syrup (corn syrup)
- Take Vanilla Extract
- Make ready medium to large eggs
- Make ready Mixed Spice
- Get Rind of one lemon, finely grated
- Prepare freshly grated Nutmeg
- Get Cinnamon
- Get Plain Flour
- Get bicarbonate of soda
- Take Sprinkling of Salt
- Take Brandy, Whiskey or Orange Juice
- Get (yes you can even use Bourbon)
No creaming, beating or soaking of fruit required. This is the best Christmas cake recipe ever! Preparing a perfectly moist fruit cake is no mean feat. Fruit cakes can easily become dry and overly sweet much like the Deliciously Soft and Moist Christmas Fruit Cake.
Instructions to make Best and Most Moist Christmas Fruit Cake ever:
- Prepare a 25cm round or square cake tin by putting two layers of newspaper in the bottom and up the sides, followed by a layer of brown paper and then finally a layer of baking paper which you will grease on the bottom and sides with butter OR spray all over with a baking non-stick spray of your choice. Also preheat the oven to 150°C (300°F)
- Put the Mixed Fruit and the first 1/2 cup of Flour in a bowl and stir to dredge the fruit in the flour
- In a saucepan, put the butter, brown sugar and golden syrup and heat over a medium heat until butter is fully melted, stirring all the time. Cool for 10 minutes
- Whisk the eggs one at a time into the caramel mixture. Then add the lemon rind, vanilla and the spices. Mixed well
- Add this caramel mixture to the dredged fruit and stir thoroughly to combine.
- Add the remaining flour, bicarbonate of Soda and the salt and combine well again. Then stir in the alcohol or the orange juice, whichever is your choice.
- Spoon mixture into prepared tin. Place in the centre of the preheated oven. before pushing the rack in and closing the door, dip your fingers into water and liberally sprinkle the water over the top of the cake. This prevents cracking too much. Bake at 150°C (300°F) for 1.5 hours then turn the oven down to 130°C (265°F) and cook for a further 2.5 hours. (Start checking from 30 minutes before allotted time is up. Check by inserting a metal skewer into centre. Should come out clean)
- Once cooked, remove from the oven and leave in the tin on top of a cake rack for one hour. Then turn out cake onto rack and let cool completely before trimming and icing with royal icing OR perhaps glazed nuts. I even like it plain on its own.
- Note: If your oven is only fan-forced then cook at 145°C (290°F) for 1.5 hours and then at 125°C (255°F) for a further 1.5 hours and check with the skewer. Check every ten minutes there after until the skewer comes out clean. Results of this cake on fan-forced can be just as good as conventional baking but this adjustment must be adhered to or the cake can become too dry or burnt. If cooking conventionally then if the times are adhered to the cake will always be lovely and moist and never burnt.
- Enjoy! :-)
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