Glazed Fruit Christmas Cake

How to make christmas cake.

Glazed fruit christmas cake. Arrange the fruit and nuts on top in neat rows or higgledy piggledy. And here s how the making part goes down. Line a cake tin roughly 9 x 3 pour the batter into the lined tin and bake for 6hrs and 20 mins on gas mark 1. Christmas cake with glazed fruit nuts.

Don t worry about the keeping quality of this glaze we have stored glazed cakes for three months and they were still in beautiful condition. Grandma s fruitcake old fashioned christmas fruit and nut cake recipe no citron or bitter candied fruit from beatrice bakery in 2lb ring in holiday gift box. Place the cake on a board or flat surface. The glazed fruits pieces are colorful and pieces distinct not clumped together.

When cool pour over the fruits and nuts and mix to glaze. The key step that makes this so much faster to make than other fruit cakes is the fruit soaking step most recipes call for dried fruit to be soaked overnight. Using a pastry brush or tablespoon glaze the toppings with more jam. If the top is uneven trim with a sharp knife to make a flat surface.

Countdown has a fantastic range of nuts and dried fruit in their baking section and leading up to christmas so many of them are on price lockdown or special. Every body makes fun of fruit cake. While this cake is excellent sliced and eaten just as it is it is great as a dessert. Sliced and then warmed up with a near instant sauce of hot orange juice brandy and a little sugar poured over.

Just microwave the dried fruit with juice and or brandy then stand for 1 hour to soak up the liquid. I take a speedy approach. Pour the fruit preserves or jam into a small saucepan. So i raided their baking section to come up with the ingredients for my glazed fruit and nut topping.

Unless you love fruit cake. Dried fruit mixture for soaking in brandy. Spoon the glazed fruits and nuts over the top of the cake to decorate. Finally brush the beautifully arranged nuts and lots more glaze then store the cake in a tin or polythene box until it s needed.

Glazed fruit christmas cake. Wrap the cake in two pieces of clingfilm to stop the outside edge of the cake from drying out and store in a tin or tub large enough to accommodate it. Add 1 1 2 teaspoons of water for every 1 4 of jam or preserved used. 30g dried apricots finely chopped.

Include about 1 4 cup of preserves or jam for every loaf sized fruitcake. Stand to allow the topping to. Ruth clemens baker extraordinaire. When it comes to serving time transfer it to a plate or clean cake card and wrap a ribbon around the side.

Thank you dixie 349 add to cart. Leave to set then decorate with a ribbon. Scroll down for my naked christmas cake with glazed nuts and cherries.