Christmas Brandy Fruit Cake Recipe

In another bowl cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy.

Christmas brandy fruit cake recipe.

Fruit cake is a traditional british christmas cake that is full of fruits and nuts and laced with alcohol usually brandy. Store the cakes in a cool place for at least 1 month before using this is when they are best a few days before serving unwrap the top of the foil and baste the cake through the cheesecloth with brandy or rum. The cake mixture using four eggs filled an eight inch round tin and took three and a half hours to bake at the stated temperature. Her signature dessert is a meticulously faithful execution of great aunt margaret s christmas fruitcake recipe which must be soaked in peach brandy.

Wrap each cake in about 4 thicknesses of cheese cloth. This gives the fruit cake a subtle brandy flavor and a moist texture plus it also allows the fruit cake to be stored for a long time. It also requires an overnight proof so take that into consideration before starting this fruitcake. Decorate the cake with glacé fruit marzipan or ready to use icing.

Combine the flour sugar baking powder and salt. Beat in eggs and vanilla. This recipe is started in october or november so as to let it mellow before the holidays. This cake is a rich dark moist fruit cake very flavorful at christmas.

Store in a cool place for up to 3 months to mature occasionally unwrapping and spooning over 1 2 tbsp brandy. Tie a ribbon around the cake if you like before serving. Good cake texture and not too much fruit. Combine fruit and nuts.

Preheat oven to 300. The holiday season presents a prickly moral dilemma for my mother. What is fruit cake. Now wrap each cake with 2 layers of heavy duty aluminum foil.

I remember very well my mother storing her fruit cake in an old butter churn that belonged to my grandmother and great grandmother. Add to nut mixture stirring until nuts and fruit are well coated. Brandy and orange juice add extra flavor and you can adjust the amounts of fruit and add some chopped nuts if you like. The only changes i made were to double the amount of brandy and used it to soak the fruits for 24 hours before making the cake.

Recipe from mary berry s complete cookbook 25. This recipe makes two cakes so you can give one away to a friend or loved one. This is the perfect fruitcake recipie. In a large bowl combine the nuts dates and cherries.