Christmas Brandy Fruit Cake Recipe

The holiday season presents a prickly moral dilemma for my mother.

Christmas brandy fruit cake recipe.

Decorate the cake with glacé fruit marzipan or ready to use icing. Put 1kg mixed dried fruit the zest and juice of 1 orange and 1 lemon 150ml brandy or other alcohol 250g softened butter and 200g light soft brown sugar in a large pan set over a medium heat. Now wrap each cake with 2 layers of heavy duty aluminum foil. Store in a cool place for up to 3 months to mature occasionally unwrapping and spooning over 1 2 tbsp brandy.

I remember very well my mother storing her fruit cake in an old butter churn that belonged to my grandmother and great grandmother. What is fruit cake. Tie a ribbon around the cake if you like before serving. Fruit cake is a traditional british christmas cake that is full of fruits and nuts and laced with alcohol usually brandy.

It also requires an overnight proof so take that into consideration before starting this fruitcake. This is the perfect fruitcake recipie. In a large bowl combine the nuts dates and cherries. Beat in eggs and vanilla.

This cake is a rich dark moist fruit cake very flavorful at christmas. But mama s a southern baptist so drinkin s a sin. Wrap each cake in about 4 thicknesses of cheese cloth. In another bowl cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy.

Brandy and orange juice add extra flavor and you can adjust the amounts of fruit and add some chopped nuts if you like. Try icing with almond paste for a more festive touch. Recipe from mary berry s complete cookbook 25. The only changes i made were to double the amount of brandy and used it to soak the fruits for 24 hours before making the cake.

Add to nut mixture stirring until nuts and fruit are well coated. This recipe makes two cakes so you can give one away to a friend or loved one. Good cake texture and not too much fruit. Her signature dessert is a meticulously faithful execution of great aunt margaret s christmas fruitcake recipe which must be soaked in peach brandy.

Preheat oven to 300. Combine the flour sugar baking powder and salt. This gives the fruit cake a subtle brandy flavor and a moist texture plus it also allows the fruit cake to be stored for a long time. The cake mixture using four eggs filled an eight inch round tin and took three and a half hours to bake at the stated temperature.