The fruit flavored or decorated cakes have
their own craze with the people. The toppings and fillings can be made with
different kind of nuts and fruits like apple, berries, apricot, fig, papaya,
raisins, and so forth. The cake would also be soaked in spirits. This cake is
one of the inclusive of “must have” list especially on Christmas, New Year
festive time. The mixed fruits cake brings the collective health benefits of
all the fruits used. Apricots are good source of fiber, has a wealth of
benefits including preventing constipation and digestive condition such as diverticulitis.
It contains nutrients such as Vitamin A promotes good vision. Figs include good
amount of dietary fibers helpful for reducing body weight, contain good amount
of calcium helps to strengthen bones, high in potassium help reduce insulin so it
can control diabetes. Papaya is great for skin, helps to get rid of acne and
skin infections, rich in fiber lowers blood cholesterol level. The antioxidants
in papaya, berries help in controlling premature ageing, prevent cancer and so
forth.
Several Fruit cake recipes available comprises Apricot pecan fruit cake, Avocado
holiday cake, Dump fruit cake, Cassata with fresh strawberry puree, Fig raisin
spice loaf, Light fruit cake, Papaya bread muffins, Tutti Frutti cake, English Christmas
Rum Pudding, Festive Fruit cakes, Mixed Fruit Vanilla Cake, Dark Fruitcakes and
so forth. Fruit cake business revolved out to be huge money making one account
of the desirability and the health benefits of the collective fruits. Many
innovations can be implemented merging the new untried fruits, vegetables with
other different Fruit cake recipes
to make new formula to promote the business like carrot dump fruit cake, coffee
fruit cake and so forth.
The making of Fruit cake is an easy process with or without frosting. It is an ideal
cake to please the visit and invited. The recipe follows below. The ingredients
are simple, could be shopped anywhere with no big effort. The precondition is
having the good conditioned working oven.
Cake
Ingredients:
·
3cups sifted all-purpose flour
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1-1/2 cups candied pineapple
chunks
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3 cups golden raisins
·
1-1/2 cups candied cherries, dried
apricots, dried figs
·
1 cup dried currants
·
2 ounces candied orange peel
·
2 ounces candied citron peel
·
1/2 cup orange juice
·
1 teaspoon of baking powder
·
1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
·
1/4 teaspoon of salt
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2 cups butter or margarine(softened)
·
4 cups confectioners’ sugar
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8 eggs separated
·
4 cups pecans, walnuts, almonds
chopped
Directions:
·
Pineapple chunks, raisins, and
cherries should be chopped. Chopped fruit with currants, orange peel, and
citron should be combined and soaked in orange juice overnight.
·
The oven must be preheated to
350 degrees F (180 degrees C)
·
The cake pan should be greased
with the melted butter.
·
Flour, baking powder, baking
soda, sugar, and salt should be sifted together in a bowl.
·
Butter or Margarine, eggs
should be added in the center part of the flour mix.
·
Everything should be gently
blended together, beaten until it becomes creamy or fluffy
·
Dried fruit mixture, nuts, and
currants, orange juice should be sifted together into the batter now and
blended, beaten again.
·
The mixture now should be
poured into the greased cake pan.
·
Keep this pan in oven and bake
this for about 35 to 40 minutes until the cake starts leaving the pan from
sides.
·
Knife or wooden pick can be
inserted in the center of the cake to take it out clean.
·
The cake should be removed from
the oven and made to cool off for few minutes only.
·
Run a knife around the edges to
loosen the cake and place a flat plate over the cake pan turn it over to
transfer the cake onto the plate.
·
The cake should be made to cool
completely.
·
The top surface of the cake can
be made with skewer poke holes and brushed with little brandy.
·
This cake will keep several
weeks or it can be frozen.
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