Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, fruit cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Fruitcake (or fruit cake or fruit bread) is a cake made with candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and optionally soaked in spirits. In the United Kingdom, certain rich versions may be iced and decorated. Fruitcakes are typically served in celebration of weddings and Christmas.

Fruit cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Fruit cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook fruit cake using 16 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Fruit cake:

1. Make ready 1/4 th cup Raisins or golden kismis
2. Get 1/4 th cup Sultanas or black raisins
3. Get 1/4 th cup chopped dates
4. Take 1/4 th cup dry dates/ dry plums or khubani
5. Prepare 1/4 th cup Orange marmalade
6. Take 1/2 cup Orange juice or grape juice
7. Get 1 tsp Orange zest
8. Prepare 1/2 cup assorted chopped nuts
9. Prepare 1 +1/2 cup All purpose flour
10. Get 1 cup soft unsalted butter
11. Make ready 1 cup brown sugar
12. Take 3 eggs
13. Prepare 1 +1/2 tsp baking powder
14. Take 1/2 tsp mix spice(nutmeg, cinnamon & dry ginger)
15. Make ready 1 tsp vanilla essence
16. Get 1 pinch salt

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Steps to make Fruit cake:

1. Take a glass. Add all the dry fruits, orange marmalade, orange zest and fruit juice.
2. Mix, cover and keep aside for 4-5 hours in room temperature.
3. After 4-5 hours, keep the glass in the refrigerator for 2-3 days so that dry fruits soak the juice completely.
4. The day you want to bake the cake, take out the glass from the refrigerator, at least 4-5 hours before baking.
5. Now start making the cake.
6. Cream butter and sugar in a food processor or with a hand mixer. The mixture should be fluffy and creamy.
7. Sieve together flour and baking powder.
8. Pre heat oven at 180 degree Centigrade for 10 minutes.
9. Now add eggs one by one to the butter mixture and whisk well for about 1-2 minutes. Don't over beat.
10. Add vanilla essence, spice powder, salt and assorted chopped nuts. Mix with a spatula. Keep some nuts separately to garnish.
11. Add the flour, baking powder mixture and fold gently with cut and fold method.
12. Now add the soaked dry frits and fold gently. If any juice left un soaked, discard that.
13. Pour this batter in a greased and lined rounded(9 inch diameter) baking dish. The batter should be little thick in consistency.
14. Tap the dish 2-3 times and garnish the top with the remaining assorted nuts.
15. Bake it for about 40-45 minutes or till a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the cake.

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