Light Fruit Cake
Light Fruit Cake

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, light fruit cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Light Fruit Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Light Fruit Cake is something which I have loved my whole life.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook light fruit cake using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Light Fruit Cake:
  1. Make ready 3/4 cup (120 grams) candied mixed peel
  2. Get 1/2 cup (100 grams) candied red or green cherries (cut into quarters)
  3. Prepare 1/3 cup (40 grams) dark raisins
  4. Get 2-3 tablespoons Grand Marnier, rum, brandy, or sherry (optional)
  5. Prepare 1/2 cup (113 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature
  6. Take 1/2 cup (100 grams) granulated white sugar
  7. Get 3 large eggs, room temperature
  8. Get 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  9. Make ready 1/4 teaspoon pure almond extract
  10. Make ready 1 1/2 cups (195 grams) all-purpose flour
  11. Take 1/2 cup (50 grams) ground almonds (almond meal/flour)
  12. Get 1 teaspoon baking powder
  13. Prepare 1/4 teaspoons salt
  14. Make ready Zest of one small lemon (outer skin)
  15. Prepare 1/4 cup (60 ml) milk (whole or reduced fat)
  16. Get Some flaked almonds for decoration

Spoon the mixture into the tin and level the top. Some dried fruits have a very light coating of vegetable oil on them which can cause them to slip to the bottom of a cake as it is baking. To begin this cake you need to do quite a bit of chopping. Start with the walnuts, which should be fairly finely chopped.

Instructions to make Light Fruit Cake:
  1. In a large bowl, combine candied mixed peel, cherries, and dark raisins. Mix well. Stir in the brandy to coat the fruit. Cover tightly with plastic wrap. Let stand at room temperature at least 1 day(up to 2 days) to macerate the fruit, stirring occasionally.
  2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C), with the oven rack in the center of the oven. Butter, or spray with a nonstick vegetable spray, a 9 x 5 x 3 inch (23 x 13 x 8 cm) loaf pan.
  3. In a separate bowl, whisk dried ingredients together the flour, baking powder, salt, and lemon zest.
  4. In a large bowl of stand mixer and using the paddle attachment, beat the butter until creamy. Gradually add the sugar and beat until mixture is light and creamy. Beat in the egg one at a time, beating well after each addition and scraping the sides of the bowl with a spatula to ensure ingredients are all incorporated. Beat 1 additional minute.
  5. Beat in the extracts. Add the candied and dried fruits, along with any juices, and beat until incorporated. Beat in half the flour mixture just until incorporated. Add almond flour, then beat in the milk and then the remaining flour mixture. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and, if desired, decorate the top of the cake with flaked almonds.
  6. Bake for about 60 - 70 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cover with a piece of aluminum foil if you find the cake is browning too much! Remove the cake from the oven. - Let it cool down in the baking tin. Cut into slices and serve.

To begin this cake you need to do quite a bit of chopping. Start with the walnuts, which should be fairly finely chopped. Then the pineapple, apricots and cherries need to be chopped roughly the same size as the sultanas. The candied peel, angelica and crystallised ginger need to be chopped smaller. I often make an Everyday Fruit Cake to take with us when we go on holiday because it travels well and keeps for a week.

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