Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Fruit Cake
My husband's favourite - fruit cakes. So I dug out an old recipe given by my sis-in-law. Though I didn't follow the actual amount of dried fruits in the recipe, it turned out well. Being lazy, I just bought a packet of dried fruits and added some dried cranberries which I have in the fridge. My colleagues love it!
Ingredients
285 gm (10 oz) flour )
1 tsp salt ) A
2 tsp mixed spice )
225 gm butter
175 gm (6 oz.) castor sugar
5 eggs (slightly beaten)
1 tsp. vanilla essense
4 tabsp brandy
500 gm or more dried fruits (I added 4 tabsp of brandy to it) - B
3 tabsp sugar
2 tabsp water
6 tabsp. evaporated milk
Method
1) Sieve A Mix the dried fruits into (A) and set aside.
2) Caramelize the sugar and water to a dark brown. Add the evaporated milk and stir over
low heat to dissolve the caramel. Set aside.
3) Cream butter and sugar until light. Add beaten eggs one at a time.
4) Put in vanilla essence, caramel and 2 tabsp. of the flour and mix.
5) Fold in the remaining flour with the dried fruits and brandy. Mix well.
6) Pour batter into a 7" greased square tin lined with baking paper and bake at 180 deg. C
for 1 hour or till cake is done. Poke in a skewer and if it comes out clean, it is done.
Enjoy!
Note: I used two 7"L x 3.5"W x 3"H tins and bake for 50 mins.
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