Christmas Brandy Fruit Cake Recipe

In a large bowl combine the nuts dates and cherries.

Christmas brandy fruit cake recipe.

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. The holiday season presents a prickly moral dilemma for my mother. Now wrap each cake with 2 layers of heavy duty aluminum foil. Her signature dessert is a meticulously faithful execution of great aunt margaret s christmas fruitcake recipe which must be soaked in peach brandy.

This recipe makes two cakes so you can give one away to a friend or loved one. 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. In another bowl cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. This recipe is started in october or november so as to let it mellow before the holidays.

Recipe from mary berry s complete cookbook 25. Wrap each cake in about 4 thicknesses of cheese cloth. Try icing with almond paste for a more festive touch. Decorate the cake with glacé fruit marzipan or ready to use icing.

Put 1kg mixed dried fruit the zest and juice of 1 orange and 1 lemon 150ml brandy or other alcohol 250g softened butter and 200g light soft brown sugar in a large pan set over a medium heat. Fruit cake is a traditional british christmas cake that is full of fruits and nuts and laced with alcohol usually brandy. 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. This cake is a rich dark moist fruit cake very flavorful at christmas.

Brandy and orange juice add extra flavor and you can adjust the amounts of fruit and add some chopped nuts if you like. Tie a ribbon around the cake if you like before serving. Store in a cool place for up to 3 months to mature occasionally unwrapping and spooning over 1 2 tbsp brandy. I remember very well my mother storing her fruit cake in an old butter churn that belonged to my grandmother and great grandmother.

But mama s a southern baptist so drinkin s a sin. Good cake texture and not too much fruit. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Combine fruit and nuts.

Preheat oven to 300. Combine the flour sugar baking powder and salt. Add to nut mixture stirring until nuts and fruit are well coated. This is the perfect fruitcake recipie.