Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, easy (boiled) christmas fruit cake # christmas baking contest#. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This fruit cake is a simpler and easier version of making a traditional fruit cake or old-fashioned fruit cake. In this Easy fruit cake recipe we don't need any soaking of dry fruits; but still the raisins,candied peels,cranberries and other dried fruits will be juicy and plumpy as they are boiled in. An easy to make fruit cake with mixed dried fruit like cranberries, currants and raisins.
Easy (Boiled) Christmas Fruit Cake # Christmas baking contest# is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Easy (Boiled) Christmas Fruit Cake # Christmas baking contest# is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have easy (boiled) christmas fruit cake # christmas baking contest# using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Easy (Boiled) Christmas Fruit Cake # Christmas baking contest#:
- Get 1.5 Cups APF/ Self raising flour
- Make ready 2 large eggs
- Make ready 1/2 Cup Brown sugar
- Make ready 1/2 Cup Granulated sugar
- Take 1 Cup Water
- Get 1/4 Cup Butter/ Margarine
- Get 1 Cup Raisins/Blackcurrants (or half of each)
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 tsp Vanilla essence
- Prepare 1 Cup Tutti frutti
- Take 1 tsp Cake spice (nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon)
- Make ready 1/4 Cup Cashewnuts
Now, the reason it's often called a "Boiled" Fruit Cake, is. This moist, tender, boozy fruit cake from Andrew Zimmern gets its amazing texture from boiling the dried fruit with rum, molasses, cream and spices. This easy and forgiving recipe is inspired by a boiled fruit cake Andrew Zimmern tasted when visiting Newfoundland. This recipe produces a really moist fruit cake it was given to me by my mom, and it's really easy.
Instructions to make Easy (Boiled) Christmas Fruit Cake # Christmas baking contest#:
- In a pot, add in water, raisins. tutti frutti, sugar and butter and mix well.
- Add in your cake spice with salt and let it boil/simmer for 5 mins only
- Let it cool to luke warm. The add in your eggs and essence - mix well.
- Fold in your flour. Then add in your chopped nuts.
- Pour in your lined/greased tin and bake in a preheated oven for 40 - 50 mins or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Cool completely and serve!
My mom uses it for Christmas cake by icing it. I use it for birthdays, Christmas, or just for a treat. These Christmas fruitcake recipes will have you thinking about holiday desserts in a whole new light. Forget everything you thought you felt about fruitcake. These twists on the Christmas classic will have you going in for seconds, and wanting to bake it more than once a year.
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