Christmas Fruit Cake
Ready in 45 minutes, for 36 servings
EQUIPMENT:
- baking paper
- cake form
1) Ingredients: Line a 8" square cake tin with two layers of parchment paper, bottom and sides of cake tin
INGREDIENTS:
- butter
2) G Butter
INGREDIENTS:
- sugar
3) G Sugar
INGREDIENTS:
- egg
4) Eggs
INGREDIENTS:
- baking powder
- all purpose flour
5) G Plain flour (sifted with baking powder)
INGREDIENTS:
- baking powder
6) Tsp Baking powder
7) Tsp
INGREDIENTS:
- mixed spice
8) Mixed spice
INGREDIENTS:
- dried fruit
9) Mixed dried fruit
INGREDIENTS:
- prunes
10) G Pitted prune - cut to small pieces
INGREDIENTS:
- walnuts
11) G Walnut - chop to small pieces
INGREDIENTS:
- rum
12) Tbsp Rum
INGREDIENTS:
- orange juice
13) Tbsp Orange juice
INGREDIENTS:
- orange zest
- orange
14) Orange zest from one orange
INGREDIENTS:
- vanilla extract
15) Tsp Vanilla extract
INGREDIENTS:
- dried fruit
- prunes
- wrap
- rum
EQUIPMENT:
- bowl
16) In a large bowl add mixed dried fruit and pitted prune together with 8 tbsp of rum and mix well, cover with cling wrap until next day.
INGREDIENTS:
- vanilla extract
- orange juice
- orange zest
- butter
- sugar
- rum
17) Beat butter and sugar till light and fluffy, slowly add in rum, orange juice, orange zest and vanilla extract, mix well.
INGREDIENTS:
- egg
EQUIPMENT:
- bowl
18) Add eggs, one at a time and scrape bowl.
INGREDIENTS:
- dried fruit
- mixed spice
- butter
- all purpose flour
19) Add 1/4 portion of flour to the mixed dried fruit. Slowly add 3/4 portion of flour and mixed spice to butter mixture, mix well. Stop machine.
INGREDIENTS:
- dried fruit
- walnuts
EQUIPMENT:
- cake form
- spatula
20) Pour in mixed dried fruit and chopped walnut, mix well with a rubber spatula then pour into cake tin. Bang tin on table once to settle the content.
EQUIPMENT:
- oven
- aluminum foil
21) Bake at preheated oven at 160C for 1 1/2 hour. **After about 30-40 mins when the cake starts to turn brown, cover cake with foil loosely on top and continue baking.
INGREDIENTS:
- fruit
- rum
EQUIPMENT:
- oven
22) Pour 3-4 tbsp of rum on to Fruit Cake as soon as it comes from the oven.
INGREDIENTS:
- wrap
EQUIPMENT:
- cake form
23) Leave cake to cool, turn out from cake tin and wrap with cling wrap and store in the fridge.
INGREDIENTS:
- rum
24) Pour 2-3 tbsp of rum on cake every three days until it is ready to serve or giveaway as Christmas gift.