Christmas Fruit Cake

Christmas Fruit Cake

  Ready in : 45 mins

Christmas Fruit Cake takes about 45 minutes from beginning to end. This dessert has 136 calories, 2g of protein, and 8g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 36. For 49 cents per serving, this recipe covers 5% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe from Foodista has 5 fans. Head to the store and pick up butter, orange zest, line a 8" cake tin, and a few other things to make it today. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free and lacto ovo vegetarian diet. Christmas will be even more special with this recipe. Overall, this recipe earns a rather bad spoonacular score of 15%. If you like this recipe, you might also like recipes such as Christmas Fruit Cake, Christmas Fruit Cake, and No bake Christmas fruit cake.

Ingredients

butter

butter

250 grams

sugar

sugar

125 grams

eggs

eggs

4

flour

flour

200 grams

baking powder

baking powder

0.5 teaspoon

spice

spice

0.5 teaspoon

fruit

fruit

500 grams

prune- cut to pieces

prune- cut to pieces

100 grams

walnut- chop to pieces

walnut- chop to pieces

100 grams

rum

rum

2 tablespoons

orange juice

orange juice

2 tablespoons

orange zest

orange zest

1

vanilla extract

vanilla extract

1 teaspoon

line a 8" cake tin

line a 8" cake tin

1 square

Cooking in Steps

  1. 1
    Ingredients: Line a 8" square cake tin with two layers of parchment paper, bottom and sides of cake tin

    baking paper
    baking paper
    cake form
    cake form
  2. 2
    G Butter

    butter

    butter

  3. 3
    G Sugar

    sugar

    sugar

  4. 4
    Eggs

    egg

    egg

  5. 5
    G Plain flour (sifted with baking powder)

    baking powder

    baking powder

    all purpose flour

    all purpose flour

  6. 6
    Tsp Baking powder

    baking powder

    baking powder

  7. 7
    Tsp

  8. 8
    Mixed spice

    mixed spice

    mixed spice

  9. 9
    Mixed dried fruit

    dried fruit

    dried fruit

  10. 10
    G Pitted prune - cut to small pieces

    prunes

    prunes

  11. 11
    G Walnut - chop to small pieces

    walnuts

    walnuts

  12. 12
    Tbsp Rum

    rum

    rum

  13. 13
    Tbsp Orange juice

    orange juice

    orange juice

  14. 14
    Orange zest from one orange

    orange zest

    orange zest

    orange

    orange

  15. 15
    Tsp Vanilla extract

    vanilla extract

    vanilla extract

  16. 16
    In a large bowl add mixed dried fruit and pitted prune together with 8 tbsp of rum and mix well, cover with cling wrap until next day.

    dried fruit

    dried fruit

    prunes

    prunes

    wrap

    wrap

    rum

    rum

    bowl
    bowl
  17. 17
    Beat butter and sugar till light and fluffy, slowly add in rum, orange juice, orange zest and vanilla extract, mix well.

    vanilla extract

    vanilla extract

    orange juice

    orange juice

    orange zest

    orange zest

    butter

    butter

    sugar

    sugar

    rum

    rum

  18. 18
    Add eggs, one at a time and scrape bowl.

    egg

    egg

    bowl
    bowl
  19. 19
    Add 1/4 portion of flour to the mixed dried fruit. Slowly add 3/4 portion of flour and mixed spice to butter mixture, mix well. Stop machine.

    dried fruit

    dried fruit

    mixed spice

    mixed spice

    butter

    butter

    all purpose flour

    all purpose flour

  20. 20
    Pour in mixed dried fruit and chopped walnut, mix well with a rubber spatula then pour into cake tin. Bang tin on table once to settle the content.

    dried fruit

    dried fruit

    walnuts

    walnuts

    cake form
    cake form
    spatula
    spatula
  21. 21
    Bake at preheated oven at 160C for 1 1/2 hour. **After about 30-40 mins when the cake starts to turn brown, cover cake with foil loosely on top and continue baking.

    oven
    oven
    aluminum foil
    aluminum foil
  22. 22
    Pour 3-4 tbsp of rum on to Fruit Cake as soon as it comes from the oven.

    fruit

    fruit

    rum

    rum

    oven
    oven
  23. 23
    Leave cake to cool, turn out from cake tin and wrap with cling wrap and store in the fridge.

    wrap

    wrap

    cake form
    cake form
  24. 24
    Pour 2-3 tbsp of rum on cake every three days until it is ready to serve or giveaway as Christmas gift.

    rum

    rum