Recipe of Speedy Christmas Fruit cake

Christmas Fruit cake.

Christmas Fruit cake

Hey everyone, it's Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we're going to prepare a distinctive dish, christmas fruit cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Christmas Fruit cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it's quick, it tastes delicious. Christmas Fruit cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have christmas fruit cake using 15 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Christmas Fruit cake:

{Make ready of All purpose flour.
{Get of Muscavado dark sugar.
{Prepare of Butter.
{Take of Mixed fruits and raisins.
{Get of almond powder.
{Take of treacle.
{Make ready of large eggs.
{Get of Marzipan ready to roll.
{Get of ready to roll fondant.
{Get of decorating stars edible.
{Get of Brandy.
{Make ready of lemon zest.
{Prepare of orange zest.
{Get of Few almonds as topping.
{Prepare of Apricot jam.

Instructions to make Christmas Fruit cake:

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..
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..
Preheat the oven to 150°C..
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..
Add the flour and mix with spatula. I don't use electric mixer for the flour..
Now add the mixed fruits, almond powder. It might look a bit messy at this point but that's how it would be..
Pour into the pan. Top it with almonds. This will help for good appearance Incase we don't have time to decorate later!.
Cover the pan with parchment paper to overturn the top layer. Keep the pan in oven for 3 hours at 140 *C.
Switch off oven. Allow cake to cool down..
Keep in airtight container..
On the day of decorating, knead the marzipan and roll it over. I did according to Waitrose video on YouTube..
You need 2 TSP apricot jam a bit heated to apply on cake so that marzipan sticks to it..
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..
Then stick the edible stars.
Keep in airtight cake container until ready to display..

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