Over night soaked fruit cake. Soaking Fruits for a Christmas Cake without alcohol. Speedy Christmas Cake that requires no overnight fruit soaking! An easy fruit cake that's rich with a velvety texture, super moist and full flavoured.
Fruit cake is a bit of a divisive one; I know that a lot of people aren't keen on it, but I absolutely love it and Christmas for me wouldn't be the same without a It needs to be soaked at least overnight so do make sure that you start this cake the day before you want to bake it. The fruit can be left to soak for. The soaking of dried fruits for the Christmas cake is a bit of an event in Calcutta. You can cook Over night soaked fruit cake using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Over night soaked fruit cake
- You need 225 g of plain flour.
- You need 225 g of butter.
- Prepare 225 g of dark brown sugar.
- You need 4 of eggs.
- You need 2 tsp of cinnamon.
- Prepare 2 tsp of mixed spice.
- Prepare 1 of kilo mixed fruit.
- It’s 750 of fl orange/apple juice (brandy if wish).
With the month-long festivities of the Pujo season behind them. This entire fruit soaking process and Christmas Fruit Cake/Pudding baking can be done in three ways. The third one is the easiest way; soak fruits for overnight just three-four weeks before Christmas and on next day bake the cake, brush alcohol once a week until Christmas. DO NOT soak the fruits in a plastic or steel or aluminium container as the alcohol tends to react with these materials.
Over night soaked fruit cake instructions
- Measure out all fruit and mixed with fluids. Leave overnight to soak up the liquid and expand the fruit..
- Preheat oven to 140 degrees.
- Mix flour, sugar, spices, eggs and butter in a large mixing bowl. Mix until smooth.
- Slowly add the fruit, mixing as you go..
- Transfer the cake into greased tins..
- Leave to cook for 4 hours, after look for a spongy top and a clean knife..
It has to be stored in a glass Jar only. For a non-alcoholic Christmas Fruit Cake, soak your fruits overnight, prior to baking in Orange Juice. Can use any dry fruits you want (dry pineapple. A traditional moist fruit cake made with rum soaked dried fruit, citrus zest, and candied ginger. The best fruit cake recipe you'll ever make!