Simple Way to Make Award-winning Homemade Fruit Cake

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, homemade fruit cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Homemade Fruit Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Homemade Fruit Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have homemade fruit cake using 15 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Homemade Fruit Cake:

1. Prepare 1/3 Cup Brown Sugar
2. Make ready 1/3 Cup White Sugar
3. Make ready 1/5 Cup Butter
4. Make ready 2/3 Cup Water
5. Make ready pinch Salt
6. Make ready 1 Egg
7. Get 1 Cup Flour
8. Take 1 tsp Baking powder
9. Prepare 1/2 tsp Vanilla
10. Get 1/2 inch Ginger
11. Take 2 Cloves
12. Make ready 1 Cinnamon stick
13. Take 2/3 Cup Candied fruits
14. Take 1/3 Cup Raisins
15. Make ready 3 - 4103 - 4 Tbsps Dates Almonds Rum Brandy , chopped , finely sliced /

Instructions to make Homemade Fruit Cake:

1. In a glass bowl, add the candied fruits, the chopped dates, and the rum/brandy. Mix and set it aside.
2. In a piece of muslin cloth, tie up the cloves, cinnamon and garlic.
3. In a large saucepan, drop in the tied-up muslin, both the sugars, the butter, salt, water, and raisins. Bring to a boil, while stirring constantly.
4. Now, reduce the flame and simmer this mixture for 5 mins. Keep stirring to ensure that all the sugar has dissolved.
5. Once done, turn off the heat and let the mixture cool for 10 mins.
6. After 10 mins, pre-treat your oven at 160 degree Celsius. Line a 7"by 7" square baking dish with parchment paper/foil.
7. Remove the muslin cloth from the saucepan.
8. In a small bowl, whisk together the egg and the vanilla. Now, gently add this mixture into the lukewarm saucepan. Mix immediately to prevent scrambling of the egg.
9. Also add in the flour, baking powder, candied fruits, dates and almonds. Mix well.
10. Pour this heavy batter into the baking dish.
11. Bake for 15-20 mins, or till the toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.
12. Let the cake rest on a rack for 30 mins, before serving.
13. Enjoy this delicious fruit cake with some tea!
14. Tip 1: If possible, soak the candied fruits in the rum/brandy overnight at room temperature. This helps enhance the flavours.
15. Tip 2: Feel free to add a bit more sugar if you like.

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