Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, light fruit cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Light Fruit Cake: If desired, in a bowl combine the candied mixed peel, cherries, and dark raisins. Stir in the alcohol, cover, and let sit at room temperature at least a day (up to two days). Light Fruit Cake (轻杂果蛋糕） - Guai Shu Shu.
Light Fruit Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Light Fruit Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have light fruit cake using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Light Fruit Cake:
- Take 3/4 cup (120 grams) candied mixed peel
- Get 1/2 cup (100 grams) candied red or green cherries (cut into quarters)
- Get 1/3 cup (40 grams) dark raisins
- Take 2-3 tablespoons Grand Marnier, rum, brandy, or sherry (optional)
- Take 1/2 cup (113 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature
- Get 1/2 cup (100 grams) granulated white sugar
- Prepare 3 large eggs, room temperature
- Get 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon pure almond extract
- Prepare 1 1/2 cups (195 grams) all-purpose flour
- Make ready 1/2 cup (50 grams) ground almonds (almond meal/flour)
- Get 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoons salt
- Get Zest of one small lemon (outer skin)
- Prepare 1/4 cup (60 ml) milk (whole or reduced fat)
- Get Some flaked almonds for decoration
It's dotted with glace cherries, pineapple, raisins, mixed peel and almonds. It's the perfect cake to be used as a wedding or Christmas cake. I prefer a slightly lighter cake with lots of fruit and nuts. And from a convenience perspective I could not be bothered to boil all the fruit.
Steps to make Light Fruit Cake:
- In a large bowl, combine candied mixed peel, cherries, and dark raisins. Mix well. Stir in the brandy to coat the fruit. Cover tightly with plastic wrap. Let stand at room temperature at least 1 day(up to 2 days) to macerate the fruit, stirring occasionally.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C), with the oven rack in the center of the oven. Butter, or spray with a nonstick vegetable spray, a 9 x 5 x 3 inch (23 x 13 x 8 cm) loaf pan.
- In a separate bowl, whisk dried ingredients together the flour, baking powder, salt, and lemon zest.
- In a large bowl of stand mixer and using the paddle attachment, beat the butter until creamy. Gradually add the sugar and beat until mixture is light and creamy. Beat in the egg one at a time, beating well after each addition and scraping the sides of the bowl with a spatula to ensure ingredients are all incorporated. Beat 1 additional minute.
- Beat in the extracts. Add the candied and dried fruits, along with any juices, and beat until incorporated. Beat in half the flour mixture just until incorporated. Add almond flour, then beat in the milk and then the remaining flour mixture. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and, if desired, decorate the top of the cake with flaked almonds.
- Bake for about 60 - 70 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cover with a piece of aluminum foil if you find the cake is browning too much! Remove the cake from the oven. - Let it cool down in the baking tin. Cut into slices and serve.
I tried this recipe last year for christmas and it was exactly the way. Our fruity cake recipes transform seasonal fruits into delicious, moist cakes to enjoy at any time of day. From light strawberry cake and fun blueberry poke cake, to indulgent orange marmalade slump. Gently fold in the fruit then spoon the mixture into the tin. Cool on cake rack until thoroughly cold.
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