The Seventh Recipe For Christmas/ Apricot Fruit Cake
The Seventh Recipe For Christmas/ Apricot Fruit Cake
The Seventh Recipe For Christmas/ Apricot Fruit Cake
The Seventh Recipe For Christmas/ Apricot Fruit Cake includes dried apricots which have always been a tradition in our household for Christmas. Hence I always have something with apricots every Christmas.
This year, I experimented with various fruitcakes and used Dried Apricot Puree instead of burnt sugar. The result…enticing and a rich aroma pervades our house.
The Seventh Recipe For Christmas/Apricot Fruit Cake
The Seventh Recipe For Christmas/ Apricot Fruit Cake
The Seventh Recipe For Christmas/ Apricot Fruit Cake
The Seventh Recipe For Christmas/ Apricot Fruit Cake
The Seventh Recipe For Christmas/ Apricot Fruit Cake
Ingredients
200 gms each of flour, sugar, tuitti fruitti, black currants, sultanas, cherries and preserved pumpkin and nuts
5 eggs
250 gms butter
1 tsp. mixed spice powder
50 gms candied peel
½ tsp baking powder
2 tsp vanilla
2 tbsp whiskey (optional)
Method:
Chop fruits. Sieve flour and baking powder into large bowl. Add rest of the ingredients and stir till smooth and glossy. Bake at 150 C / 300 F for 45 minutes or till skewer inserted in centre comes out clean. Cool un-mould and feed with whiskey if you must. Wrap with brown paper and store in an airtight tin until you are ready to serve it.
NB: Feed with 1 or 2 tbsp whiskey once a week until you want to slice it.
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