Recipe of Homemade Boiled fruit cake

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, boiled fruit cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Boiled fruit cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Boiled fruit cake is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook boiled fruit cake using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Boiled fruit cake:

1. Get 500 g mixed fruit- I used raisins, dried cranberries, mixed peel
2. Make ready 400 g tin of tropical fruit with juices- crushed
3. Prepare 125 g butter - chopped
4. Make ready 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
5. Make ready 1 tablespoon brandy (sherry or orange juice is fine)
6. Take 1 cup (250 ml) size) soft brown sugar
7. Take 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
8. Get 1 cup (250 ml) size) self raising flour- you can use wholemeal
9. Prepare 1 cup plain flour
10. Get Grated nutmeg and orange peel
11. Make ready 2 eggs, lightly beaten
12. Take 180 C oven

Steps to make Boiled fruit cake:

1. Place crushed tropical fruit, dried fruit, butter, sugar, vanilla essence and brandy in a saucepan and heat gently until the butter has melted.
2. Bring mixtures to the boil and then simmer for approx. 5 minutes
3. Cool
4. Sift plain flour, self-raising flour and bicarbonate of soda together
5. Add beaten eggs to cooled fruit mixture. Stir gently.
6. Add dry flour mixture and stir.
7. Place mixture in a prepared 20cm round cake tin. Sprinkle with sugar for a crunchy top (optional).
8. Bake 180C for approx 1.5 hours. Skewer test the middle after 1 hour 15 minutes to check if the cake is cooked or needs a little longer. Cool slightly then turn out onto a wire rack to cool fully.

So that is going to wrap this up for this exceptional food boiled fruit cake recipe. Thank you very much for your time. I’m confident you can make this at home. There’s gonna be more interesting food at home recipes coming up. Remember to bookmark this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, friends and colleague. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!