Fruit Cake Recipe Made By Monks
These dense moist and spicy cakes have a truly delicious and distinctive flavor because they re handmade with only the finest freshest ingredients.
Fruit cake recipe made by monks. Laced with rum spicy moist fruitcake is a holiday favorite. In 1982 the abbey began to bake and sell fruitcake. They are baked slowly and aged under the careful supervision of the monks. In another bowl cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy.
Beat in eggs and vanilla. Assumption abbey fruitcakes are the dark rich traditional style of fruitcake. Method preheat the oven to 180 c. A classic school dinner pudding with a little twist.
At the suggestion of a monk who had run a similar business they began to experiment with various fruitcake recipes the monks themselves were the official taste testers. Combine fruit and nuts. This recipe includes dried fruit instead of the glowing candied stuff we ve all learned to associate with fruitcake and is less dense and more cake like than many fruitcake recipes. Made with raisins pineapple currants orange lemon peel walnuts and wine.
And seasoned with fine kentucky bourbon. Now on to the list of over 40 recipes featuring monk fruit. Made by the trappist monks of assumption abbey in missouri. The recipe was created by brother finton who worked in a bakery before he became a monk.
The wall street journal rated gethsemani farms fruitcake as the best overall in quality and value. You can also use code realbalanced for 20 off all of your lakanto orders. The moist holiday cakes are made with raisins cherries pineapple pecans walnuts citron and orange. It has become a favorite of my friends and family around the holidays even the skeptical ones and is delicious by itself or covered with a layer of almond paste.
In the early days one monk brother eugene did all the baking. I have partnered with lakanto to offer you all a taste test bundle featuring classic monk fruit sweetener golden monk fruit sweetener a recipe ebook and lakanto s taste test guarantee. Assumption abbey fruitcakes are the dark rich traditional style of fruitcake. Everything from marinating the fruit to mixing to baking to packaging to aging to mailing is done right at the monastery by the monks assumption abbey is not a commercial enterprise.