How to Prepare Award-winning Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake

Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, celebration (xmas) fruit cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have celebration (xmas) fruit cake using 21 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake:

1. Get Dry Stuff
2. Get 350 grams Plain Flour
3. Take 2 teaspoon Cinnamon
4. Prepare 2 teaspoons Mixed Spice
5. Make ready Fruits
6. Get 110 grams Chopped Candied Peel
7. Take 110 grams Glacé Cherries, cut in half
8. Make ready 2 Lemons Grated rind of
9. Make ready 2 Oranges, Grated rind of
10. Make ready 1 Kilogram Dried Fruits, (500grams sultanas, 500grams Seedless Raisins)
11. Make ready Nuts (Optional!!)
12. Take 110 grams Almonds
13. Prepare 110 grams Walnuts
14. Get 110 grams Hazelnuts
15. Take Wet Stuff
16. Get 4 large or 5 medium Eggs
17. Get 2 tablespoons Brandy/Rum Or Milk !
18. Take Sticky Stuff
19. Make ready 300 grams Butter (or best Margarine)
20. Make ready 300 grams Moist Dark Brown Sugar
21. Get 3 level tablespoons Black Treacle(or Golden Syrup)

Steps to make Celebration (Xmas) Fruit Cake:

1. Prepare tins as follows. Double layer of grease proof paper, draw around the bottom of your tin. Grease paper, then cut to draw line, fit to bottom of tin.
2. Double layer of grease proof paper, enough to go around sides of tin. Grease and fit to sides of tin, overlapping the bottom layer
3. In a very large pan or bowl, mix all the dried fruits, rind of oranges and lemons, candied peel, cherries. Plus all the various nuts. Mix until evenly distributed.
4. In a bowl, cream the butter, sugar and Black Treacle together.
5. In another bowl, put the plain flour, cinnamon, mixed spices and salt. Use a whisk to gently mix it all until even.
6. Break the eggs into a measuring jug or large cup, add Brandy/ Rum or milk and whisk lightly.
7. Adding a little at a time, add egg mix and flour mix to the butter- sugar mix and combine until all has been used and smooth.
8. Add this mix into the fruit- nut mix in the large bowl, mixing until everything is coated and even. The mix should be sticky and not very wet.
9. Adding a bit at a time, put mix into your selected tins to 3/4 full. Dip your hand into a bowl of clean water and smooth down the cake mix, until raised slightly at the sides, gentle dip in the middle. (The cake will rise more in the center and you will end up with a level top!) Don’t worry if there is a small puddle, this will stop the top burning!
10. Cook in a moderate oven(mark3. 160C. 325deg) for about 1 1/2 hours. Then turn down heat to Mark1-2, 140-150 C, 275-300deg, for a further two hours.
11. Leave in tin about 30 minutes to cool. Then take out of the tin gently, into a wire rack to finish cooling completely before taking off the paper.
12. This cake can be stored in an air-tight container for several weeks, or frozen, if required!
13. If keeping for Xmas, a little Brandy or Rum, dribbled over the top, after piercing with a cocktail stick, after a month or so, then reseal.

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