Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe

Fruit Cake is a part of Christmas celebrations and people exchange Merry Christmas wishes with all by presenting fruitcakes as these are healthy and delicious. Even homemade fruit cakes are loved by people. Here, we are giving tips, ideas and complete recipe about how to make Christmas Fruit Cake.

Ingredients :
2cups currants
3cups raisins
1cup prunes
2/3 cup mixed peel
2 ¼ cups dark soft brown sugar
1tsp mixed spice
1 ¼ cups sherry
90ml rum, plus more if needed
2 cups softened butter
10 eggs beaten
4 cups self-raising flour
1 tsp vanilla essence
Pure icing sugar, to serve

Procedure :

First wash all dry fruits, raisins, glace fruit, currants, prunes and mixed peel. After drying chop them in food processor. Now shift the chopped fruit in some air-tight container. Put 100g sugar, rum, sherry and spice in the container and leave it for atleast 2 weeks. Stir the container after frequent time period so that it mix well. Now, preheat the oven to 160ºC/325ºF/Gas mark. Grease the pan and line a 25cm/10in round cake tin with a double layer of greaseproof paper. Make mixture of remaining sugar and butter in the beat eggs to make it smooth.

Now add the fruit mixture and vanilla essence in the flour. Stir the same to mix well. Now transfer the material to pan and bake it at 300ºF for 2 hours. Its really a basic and easy Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe for home lovers to make the cake with less time and with home available materials.