I Love this amazing recipe a fruit cake that is full of wonderful fruit and nuts , I was looking for some recipes that would be great to make for homemade food gifts to give for Christmas etc to family or close friends and I found a selection of foods and this was one that I knew you would love to make
I think this fruit cake would be so good to make for the festive season , I certainly will be giving it a go that is for sure this year
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The ridicule that most fruitcakes face has everything to do with bad recipes, which skimp on fruit and load on the batter. In a good fruitcake the batter should barely be perceptible, acting merely as adhesive to bind the fruit and nuts.
Broken down into its parts, a good fruitcake contains ingredients that most people love: plump dates, candied cherries, almond extract, pecans, walnuts and sugar. And when it comes out of the oven, it is showered in whiskey.
This is by no means an inexpensive cake to make, and that is largely why it became a traditional gift. It is a cake that you wouldn’t make for yourself. It is a treat.
INGREDIENTS
- Butter for pans
- 1 pound pitted Medjool dates
- ½ pound prunes from Agen or use more dates
- 1 pound candied pineapple
- 1 pound candied cherries
- 1 cup chopped candied orange peel, or 1/4 cup freshly grated orange zest
- 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons double acting baking powder
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons almond extract
- 2 cups shelled salted pistachios
- 1 cup shelled almonds
- 2 ½ cups shelled pecans
- 2 cups shelled walnuts
- White corn syrup
- ⅓ cup Armagnac, bourbon or whiskey
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