Glazed Fruit Xmas Cake

Stand to allow the topping to.

Glazed fruit xmas cake. 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. 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. Pour the fruit preserves or jam into a small saucepan.

When cool pour over the fruits and nuts and mix to glaze. Often liqueur like brandy or grand marnier is added to glaze especially christmas cakes. How to make 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.

Finally brush the beautifully arranged nuts and lots more glaze then store the cake in a tin or polythene box until it s needed. 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. And here s how the making part goes down. Include about 1 4 cup of preserves or jam for every loaf sized fruitcake.

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. While this cake is excellent sliced and eaten just as it is it is great as a dessert. Scroll down for my naked christmas cake with glazed nuts and cherries.

Christmas cake with glazed fruit nuts. Add 1 1 2 teaspoons of water for every 1 4 of jam or preserved used. Apricot glaze is also used in savoury cooking. Spoon the glazed fruits and nuts over the top of the cake to decorate.

30g dried apricots finely chopped. I take a speedy approach. Remove from heat and strain through a sieve to remove any apricot pieces. Next fold in the flour chopped almonds cinnamon and then fruit with any juices left in the bowl and treacle.

When it comes to serving time transfer it to a plate or clean cake card and wrap a ribbon around the side. Glazed fruit christmas cake. Dried fruit mixture for soaking in brandy. Instructions make fruit cake.

Ruth clemens baker extraordinaire. Glazed vegan fruit cake. Fruitcake bakers use it a lot brushing it onto a cake just out of the oven and usually arranging fruit and or nuts on top and then sealing them on with more glaze or under the marzipan as i use to. 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.

So it s really the same when you make the glaze yourself.