Light Fruit Cake
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If you are looking for a delicious easy to make light fruit cake you are in the right place.
Just look at this soft batter packed full of fruit and chopped almonds.
If you wish to use less sugar or add a sweetener of choice, that will work great. You can bake in a bundt pan or spring release pan of choice. Baking time will depend on what pan you use and check the batter part way through.
Having a fruit cake for Christmas or any special occasion this is the cake for you, just click the link above and watch our short video tutorial and below is our recipe to help you make our light fruit cake.
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Please continue on to our recipe posted below!
Ingredients
- Butter or margarine - 3/4 cup
- Sugar - 3/4 cup or less
- Eggs - 3 large
- Almond extract - 1 tsp
- All-Purpose Flour - 3 cups
- Baking powder - 1 - 1/2 tsp
- Sea salt - 1/2 tsp
- Evaporated Milk or Fresh - 1 cup
- Almonds - 1/2 cup, chopped
- Raisins - 1 cup
- Halved Glazed cherries - 1 cup, red and green chopped
Instructions
- Cream together butter and sugar.
- Separate eggs in two bowls, beat the yorks until thick in one bowl and whip the whites until stiff in another bowl, add to creamed mixture and fold together.
- Mix in almond extract.
- Then sift flour, baking powder and sea salt to creamed mixture.
- Folding dry ingredients with creamed mixture, don't over mix, then slowly add room temp milk to your mixture.
- Fold chopped cherries, raisins that have been rolled in flour to your mixture, add chopped almonds.
- “ Grease one springform pan or bundt pan.”
- Bake in a 350°F pre-heated oven for one hour depending on your oven, always check the middle of your cake first with a knife before removing it from the oven, if it comes out dry it's done if wet close door and leave for another five minutes or so then check again.
- Don't over bake your cake ,this will make your cake dry.
- Remove cake from oven let sit in cake pan for 5 to 10 minutes before removing it from the pan. You may need to run a knife around the sides to remove from pan if stuck.
- Icing with a white boiled icing, see recipe below.
BOILED ICING
Ingredients:
1 CUP MILK 4 TSBP FLOUR 1 CUP WHITE SUGAR
1/2 CUP BUTTER OR MARGARINE 1 TSP VANILLA or Flavour of choice
1 TSP CORN SYRUP ( optional )
METHOD:
- In a medium saucepan add milk, sugar and flour, start to boil on a medium heat stirring continuously.
- After liquid starts to boil slowly and thicken, this can take around 5 minutes, remove from heat and stir in vanilla to mixture.
- Put all sugar paste mixture into a bowl or jar and bring to room temperature, then put in the fridge to cool. This can take 1 hour or more for the sugar paste to cool totally.
- In a medium mixing bowl with a blender, add butter and slowly scoop the sugar paste mixture into the bowl with your butter and blend on high speed, until all combined and light and fluffy.
- Add corn syrup continue mixing until combined and put the bowl of boiled icing in the fridge until ready to use it.
Allergens
If you are looking for a tasty light fruit cake for Christmas, Anniversary or a Wedding, this is the prefect cake to make. Easy recipe to follow, take a few minutes to watch our short video tutorial and our recipe is posted above.
Enjoy to the fullest and from our kitchen to yours have a wonderful day, please leave us a message before you go letting us know if you enjoyed our recipe.
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