Name: Traditional Christmas Fruit Cake
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 120 min
Total time: 165 min
Ingredients: 700 gm fruit (totally soaked ); 75 gm Walnuts (chopped); 400 ml Rum (Brandy/Bourbon/Orange/Apple Juice, optional); 300 gm Butter (unsalted); 200 gm Brown sugar (Muscovado/Golden/Raw sugar); 4 egg (preferably large); 2 tbsp Molasses (jaggery syrup, optional); 1 teaspoon Essence (vanilla ); 300 gm plain flour (maida); 150 gm Almond (powder, optional); 1 teaspoon Clove (powder); 1 teaspoon Ginger (powder); 1 teaspoon Cinnamon (powder); 1 cup Icing Sugar (packed); Water (as required); 2 tbsp Rum (sugar syrup, optional); 1 teaspoon Essence (vanilla, if using sugar syrup); Gold pearls (to decorate)

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This post is very proudly written as it has seen months worth of hard work and dedication for this special cake!

I would love to say here that this lovely cake holds a special place in my heart as I would remember the teachers and friends from my childhood whose homes I would go on Christmas to have delicious goodies and come back with equally wonderful gifts!

At that time I never imagined owning a blog, baking my own cake and presenting it to the world on this beautiful peace loving festival. I definitely have an emotional angle to explore especially when it comes to winters, Christmas and cake and of course cake as in this ethereal traditional fruit cake.

I also remember Charles Dickens and his love for Christmas as is expressed in his works namely A Christmas Carol and especially where a small child with special needs called Tiny Tim expresses his wishes thus "God Bless Us Everyone"!

I apologies to the "no booze only veg" promisers that what they term as "booze" is the only ingredient responsible for the great flavour of this cake. You will never go tipsy, never fall or feel dizzy after having a slice of this heaven!

You will revel in the flavours and wonder that leave aside technology and scientific inventions, how far has mankind evolved to bring out treats as delicious as this and how long and painstaking might the inventors have waited to finally write the final and the all accepted recipe of Christmas fruitcake!

However there is no compulsion and please leave out the liquor if you want and use anything from sugar syrup to Orange juice to soak the fruits and if you get Rum/Brandy essence where you live, you are more than welcome to include that, however the taste remains unbeatable for the liquor soaked fruit cake!

Prep Time 45

Cook Time 2

Total Time 2 45

Served AsSnacks

CuisineBritish

Recipe Taste Sweet

Servings

Ingredients

Frosting

▢ 1 cup Icing Sugar packed
▢ Water as required
▢ 2 tbsp Rum sugar syrup, optional
▢ 1 teaspoon Essence vanilla, if using sugar syrup
▢ Gold pearls to decorate

Instructions

Notes

Non alcoholic versions are always there and you can use Orange juice
Sugar syrup (not too thick) or even Apple Juice.
This cake has a shorter shelf life than the Alcohol cake which can keep months if stored properly.
Follow all the instructions properly for a beautifully baked cake which is great tasting and perfect for Christmas!
Always use a glass casserole/jar or vessel to steep the fruits. Never use metal as the Alcohol will react with it.
Wood is fine but Glass is the best!

Soaking the fruits to make this size cake:

Mixed peel (Orange, Lemon, Grapefruit, Kinos) - 150 gm
Glace Cherries - 150 gm (halved)
Raisins - 100 gm
Sultanas - 100 gm
Maraschino Cherries - 100 gm (halved)
Other assorted dried fruits - 100 gm (chopped)
You can use any kind of dried fruits available in plenty these days like Pineapple, Kiwi, Papaya, Strawberry, Cranberry, Cherries, Dates or Apricots!
The list is endless and sky is the limit!
So the total weight of fruit - 700 gm

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