Step-by-Step Guide to Make Jamie Oliver Christmas Fruit Cake

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, christmas fruit cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

In a large bowl, combine the nuts, dates and cherries. Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt; add to nut mixture, stirring until nuts and fruit are well coated. It's a shame that fruitcake as a species gets such a bad rap. With its two key ingredients–rum and butter–it ought to be a hit.

Christmas Fruit Cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Christmas Fruit Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have christmas fruit cake using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Christmas Fruit Cake:

1. Prepare 225 grams butter
2. Make ready 200 grams brown sugar
3. Take 2 teaspoons orange zest
4. Make ready 1 tablespoon treacle syrup
5. Take 3 eggs
6. Get 275 grams plain flour
7. Take 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon powder
8. Get 1/2 teaspoon ginger powder
9. Make ready 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
10. Get 1/4 teaspoon soda bi carb
11. Make ready 2 tbsp milk
12. Get 50 grams glazed cherries
13. Make ready 50 grams raisins
14. Take 50 grams sultanas
15. Get 100 grams dates
16. Prepare 50 grams tutti frutti
17. Prepare 25 grams almonds
18. Take 25 grams cashew nuts

Use royal icing to ice it or almond paste and royal icing, I don't like almond paste! In another bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Anna Mary's gourmet cake is more a nut cake with fruit rather than a fruitcake with nuts. Made from a Mennonite family recipe, this is the cake you savor at the holidays, and happily enjoy all year round.

Steps to make Christmas Fruit Cake:

1. Mix and sieve plain flour, cinnamon powder, ginger powder, nutmeg and soda bi carb in a bowl.
2. Chop all the dry fruits and add 1 tbsp plain flour to it and mix it very well so that it doesn't sink to the bottom of the cake while baking.
3. In a bowl take butter which is kept at room temperature and brown sugar and beat it with the help of an electric beater or with a whisk until creamy. Now and orange zest and treacle syrup to it and beat it again. You can add dark caramel syrup instead of treacle syrup. Now add eggs one by one and keep on beating. Do not add all the eggs at one time.
4. Now add flour mix little by little to it and mix everything well with the help of a spatula. Add milk and mix everything well.
5. Now add prepared dry fruits to it and mix everything well. Grease and line 9 inch baking tin and add the prepared fruit cake mixture to it and level it. I have used 5.5 inch round tin and a medium size bread loaf tin here.
6. Bake the cake in the preheated oven at 160 degree for 1 hour. If the tins are small, then it will be baked in one hour but if you are using 9 inch tin then after 1 hour reduce the oven temperature to 150 degree and bake it for another 30 minutes until done. Now take out the cake tin and leave it for 5 minutes then take it out from the tin and put it on the wire rack and let it cool down completely.
7. Cut and store the fruit cake in an airtight container.

Anna Mary's gourmet cake is more a nut cake with fruit rather than a fruitcake with nuts. Made from a Mennonite family recipe, this is the cake you savor at the holidays, and happily enjoy all year round. The holiday season presents a prickly moral dilemma for my mother. Her signature dessert is a meticulously faithful execution of Great-Aunt Margaret's Christmas fruitcake recipe, which must be soaked in peach brandy. But Mama's a Southern Baptist, so drinkin's a sin.

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