Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, christmas fruit cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Christmas Fruit cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Christmas Fruit cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have christmas fruit cake using 15 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Christmas Fruit cake:

1. Make ready 220 Gram All purpose flour
2. Take 220 Gram Muscavado dark sugar
3. Make ready 220 Gram Butter
4. Prepare 800 Gram Mixed fruits and raisins
5. Take 50 gram almond powder
6. Take 1 tbsp treacle
7. Take 3 large eggs
8. Prepare 1 pack Marzipan ready to roll
9. Prepare 1 pack ready to roll fondant
10. Make ready 1 pack decorating stars edible
11. Prepare 85 ml Brandy
12. Prepare 1 lemon zest
13. Get 1 orange zest
14. Take Few almonds as topping
15. Prepare Apricot jam

It's a shame that fruitcake as a species gets such a bad rap. With its two key ingredients–rum and butter–it ought to be a hit. This recipe includes dried cherries, mango, cranberries, and currants soaked in rum overnight (a week or a month or more is even better). After it's baked, it ages in cheesecloth with additional splashes of rum.

Instructions to make Christmas Fruit cake:

1. In a large bowl with mixed dried fruit, Add the brandy and give a good mix. Then cover with clingfilm and soak for 3 nights in the fridge.
2. On the fourth day(after 3 nights of soaking mixed fruits in brandy), Grease and line a 20cm cake tin, preferably with a removable base.
3. Preheat the oven to 150°C.
4. With an electric mixer, beat the butter with the sugar and black treacle until paler and fluffy. Gradually add the eggs, beating each one at a time.
5. Add the flour and mix with spatula. I don't use electric mixer for the flour.
6. Now add the mixed fruits, almond powder. It might look a bit messy at this point but that's how it would be.
7. Pour into the pan. Top it with almonds. This will help for good appearance Incase we don't have time to decorate later!
8. Cover the pan with parchment paper to overturn the top layer. Keep the pan in oven for 3 hours at 140 *C
9. Switch off oven. Allow cake to cool down.
10. Keep in airtight container.
11. On the day of decorating, knead the marzipan and roll it over. I did according to Waitrose video on YouTube.
12. You need 2 TSP apricot jam a bit heated to apply on cake so that marzipan sticks to it.
13. 12 hours after marzipan dried, I applied the fondant icing similar to how marzipan was kneaded, rolled and stuck on cake. Cut out the edges.
14. Then stick the edible stars
15. Keep in airtight cake container until ready to display.

The cake had a hint of booze without being overwhelmed by it. I think that I will be making a Christmas fruit cake again next year. 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. Most recipes call for dried fruit to be soaked overnight.

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