Christmas Fruit Cake

A soft dense cake with the crunchy nuts and sweetness of candied fruits will rock your Christmas! Fruit Cake is generally made with dried nuts, fruits and/ or candied fruit which is chopped along with spices and can occasionally soaked in distilled beverage ( hard alcohol ). This type of cake is mostly served in Christmas and in weddings. Because of the richness in cake itself, it can be served on its own. No need for any condiments made with butter or sugar.

In this recipe, I have not added any alcohol and I have incorporated the dark color using sugar caramel by preparing a sugar caramel mixture.

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Recipe:

• Prep time - 30 mins
• Cooking time - 55 mins
• Serves - 12 to 14 pieces

Ingredients:

• For Sugar caramel mixture:
• Granulated white sugar - 1/2 cup
• Water - 1/2 cup
• Walnuts - 1/2 cup, chopped
• Cashews - 1/4 cup, chopped
• Mixed dry fruits - 1/2 cup ( includes cherries, orange peels, lemon peels, etc)
• All purpose flour - 1 cup
• Granulated white sugar - 3/4 cup , for cake batter
• Butter - 2/3 cup , unsalted or salted (Note: If salted butter is used, then no need to add salt separately)
• Eggs - 3
• Ground Cinnamon - 1/2 tsp
• Ground cloves - 1/4 tsp
• Baking powder - 1 tsp
• Vanilla Extract - 1 tsp

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 350 deg Fahrenheit.
• Make 1/2 cup sugar and melt it over low medium heat until it turn dark.
• Remove the heat and immediately add 1/2 cup water. The sugar will immediately harden.
• Again turn on the heat and stir till the hardened sugar crystals are completely dissolved in water.
• Cool down the mixture completely.
• Add and coat 2 to 3 tbsp flour to the dry fruits and nuts.
• Mix all the dry ingredients. (ie., the remaining flour with baking powder, spices and a pinch of salt if unsalted butter is used.)
• Beat butter with sugar, vanilla and eggs.
• Fold in the flour with the butter mixture.
• Add in the cooled caramel mixture and the flour coated fruits nuts mixture.
• Pour the batter in a greased pan and bake it for 50 to 55 mins.
• Check the cake by inserting a tooth pick. 
• Cool down completely and the cake is ready to be served.

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