fruit cake

emiff6

meritaten wrote: »

Ive found it! its called 'Golden Christmas Cake' and its in 'Womens Weekly Cooks Treasury'

Mine's a bit different:

GOLDEN CAKE

4 ½ oz dried apricots, roughly chopped
4 ½ oz sultanas
Rind and juice of 1 orange
6 oz plain flour
6 oz SR flour
1 teaspoon grated nutmeg
7 oz butter
7 oz caster sugar
3 medium eggs
2 oz glace ginger (optional)
2 oz chopped almonds
1 tablespoon demerera sugar

Put apricots and sultanas in a bowl with orange rind and juice and MW for 2 minutes or leave to soak for an hour.
Grease and line an 8” round deep cake tin.
Sift together the flours and nutmeg.
Cream the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, then beat in the eggs one at a time.
Fold in ½ the flour, add the fruit, ginger and nuts, then the remaining flour.
Tip into the prepared tin and smooth the top, making a slight dip in the centre.
Sprinkle with the demerera sugar and bake 1 ½ hours at 170°C (Gas 3) until firm and golden.
Cool in the tin before turning out.

Penelope_Penguin

As this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add it to the existing fruit cake thread. I'll be making my MIL's fruit cake tomorrow

Katgoddess

Thanks everyone. It sounds quiet similar to the golden christmas cake recipes that was posted so I might try that. I've also had Bara Brith cake on my do to list for a while!

Elle1267

Hi everyone

All these recipes are getting me in a baking mood I recommend soaking the fruit in brandy the day before putting it in the mixture. Yum! The current Asda magazine free in store had a recipe for fruit cake had this tip and tells you how to 'feed' it once it's baked.
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Charly27

My mum's recipe is very similar and is also nice sliced and buttered. Not so good if you're on a lo-fat diet granted!
Jock's Loaf
3/4 llb [350g] mixed dried fruit Tesco value 45p for 500g
1/4 llb [110g] margarine
1 x cup of sugar [I use whatever is in the cupboard]
1 tsp mixed spice
1 1/2 cups cold water
Mix all ingredients in pan and boil for 10 minutes
Leave to cool
Mix in 2 cups of self-raising flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 eggs
Cook in a 1 1b loaf tin [I line it with paper] and bake for 1 hr 180 c/gas 4
Freezes very well

Kim_Possible

I have used this recipe previously to make a moist fruit cake
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2180/festive-fruit-and-nut-cake

However I have made it this weekend and it have turned out dry. Can I rescue it? Btw I forgot to add the marzipan into the cake, as per the recipe, the cake was in the oven when I realised, would this be why it's dry?

Any suggestions very welcome.
Thanks

sistercas

not sure about the marzipan bit , but you could try pricking the cake and drizzling some brandy/ rum in , i do this with my xmas cake and its yummy

Seakay

I agree with sistercas - when drizzling done wrap cake in greaseproof and then foil and leave it to mature for a couple of days and it should be much moister

zippychick

I would also soak it with a little alcohol

Ive merged this with our fruit cake thread as it's dropped down the board

Zip

morganlefay

I'm having a grand clearout and have found 4 (!!!) tins condensed milk, and some mixed dried fruit, so I have just made Mary Berry's v good cake, where you melt the cond milk with a bit of marge, simmer the fruit in it for a bit, add some flour, spices and two eggs and bake - yum. BUT it uses almost a kilo of dried fruits and that seems an awful lot. I have some more fruit I can use up on next tin of condensed milk, but can any clever baker tell me how little fruit I could get away with in this recipe ? You use SR flour but no raising agent so I'm guessing that really it's a fruit pudding held together by a bit of cake mix, so that too little fruit would not be good. Any ideas please ? (the cake tastes LOVELY if you like v fruity cake)