Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Favorite Christmas Fruit cake

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, christmas fruit cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Christmas Fruit cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Christmas Fruit cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Christmas Fruit cake:

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

Steps 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.

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