Make the delicious and most served cake in this festive season, Christmas fruitcake is a luscious cake made with the verity of fruits and tasty nuts, this makes cake soft and crispy with different flavor taste of fruits. The Recipe Christmas Fruit Cake is simple and easy to make.
Ingredients
For soaking:
- Assorted dry fruits: Raisin, cranberry, blueberry, black currants, chopped figs: 10 gm
- Tutti frutti (red, green, yellow, and orange): 50 gm
- 150 ml rum
For Cake Batter:
- 2 cups/ 260 grams all-purpose flour/ refined flour
- 3/4 cup/ 75 grams finely ground almonds
- 1 cup/ 225 grams butter, at room temperature
- 1 cup/ 210 grams powdered sugar
- 3 large eggs at room temperature
- Extra rum for brushing the cake
- Juice and zest (outer orange skin) of one orange
- Zest (outer yellow skin) of one lemon/ 2 limes
- 1 cup (100 grams) almonds, walnuts, cashew nuts, and pistachios
- 1 teaspoon (4 grams) baking powder
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg powder
Preparation
- In a bowl pour the sugar, butter, egg, and whisk. Then add soaked dry fruits, orange zest, orange juice and whisk it all.
- Add the nuts and eggs to it.
- For dry ingredients mix refined flour, ground almonds, nutmeg powder and baking powder.
- Add the dry ingredients and the wet ingredients and combined together.
- Bake for 80 to 90 minutes in an oven that has been preheated to 160’C.
