Christmas Fruit Cake with fruits soaked in fruit juice|| Very popular and easy

Throughout the year we like to different varieties of cake,but when the Christmas comes eating a Christmas fruit cake is a tradition.

This is the recipe where we’re going to bake the fruit cake with fruit soaked in fruit juice. Traditionally,the fruits can be soaked 1 month prior baking the cake with Rum. But we have soaked it around 2 days before in fruit juice as ,many people like this orange flavors than Rum. In fruit juice you can also soak them for a minimum of 4-6 hours.

If you like you can also soak nuts with it,but I like to soak my fruits separately and then add nuts while baking.

Let’s bake Christmas Fruit Cake with fruits soaked in fruit juice…in my style 👇👇👇

Type- Cake

Preparation time- soak fruits for a minimum of 2days or a minimum of 4-6 hours + preparing the cake batter will take 20-25 minutes

Cooking time- 2 1/2 hours -3 hours

Ingredients:

For a 4 lb or 2 kg cake we need around 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour or 275 gm all purpose flour
1 1/2 cup of softened butter 🧈
1 1/2 cup brown sugar
5 eggs
Dry fruits -30 gm cashew+20 gm pistachios+40 gm almond+20 gm walnuts
1/4th cup orange juice
40 gm of almond powder(it keeps our cake moist)
For the spice- 1 cinnamon stick+6-7 cloves and 1/4 tsp nutmeg or jaiphol powder
Our soaked fruits

For feeding the cake:

1/4 th cup orange juice,excess juice if any left OR
1/4 th cup orange juice

Procedure:

In a bowl first whisk 1 1/2 cup softened butter until pale and fluffy
Now add 1 1/2 cup of brown sugar and whisk to cream the butter
Add 1 egg at a time and whisk to incorporate
We added 5 eggs in total
Now add sifted flour 1 1/2 cup with our spice mix
Fold with your laddle
Now add the nuts and mix
Drain your soaked fruits to remove excess juice if any left
Add your fruits now and mix
Add 2 tbs orange juice that adds flavor to it or if you can freshly grated 1 tbs orange peel,that will do too
Mix everything
Pour it in a greased baking tray
This cake is a solid came,not much of a fluffy type
Preheat your oven to 350F and bake your cake for around 2 hours
Check in between,it might take a bit more time or a bit less it depends on the oven too,insert a toothpick if it comes clean then you are good to go
When the cake is still warm,pole whole and feed the cake (for feeding mix 1/4th cup orange juice or any excess juice left after draining)
Let it cool completely and the take it out