Last-minute Christmas Fruitcake
from the kitchen of Sandy
Here is a very easy fruitcake to make for Xmas. I sent the recipe to several people told me they had tried it successfully. Dare I say - it is even better than the ones my mum makes!!
1 1/2 cups of any combination of dried fruit (e.g. raisins, sultanas, pitted chopped prunes, candied peel, candied cherries, etc.) 1/2 cup of coarsely chopped nuts (I like walnuts and almonds) 1 medium carrot, grated (makes the mixture nice and moist) 1/3 cup of rum, whiskey or any other boozy beverage, or orange juice if you prefer
1 3/4 cups of flour
1 Tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg (omit if you don't have any!) 1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 large can of crushed pineapple, drained
In a microwave-proof bowl, mix dried fruit, nuts, carrot and boozy beverge (or OJ). Cover with plastic wrap and microwave on high for 2 mins. (Or leave the mixture overnight at room temperature.) Preheat oven to 170 deg. and grease a cake tin with butter. Mix flour, baking powder, spices and sugar in a large bowl. In another bowl, mix eggs, oil and pineapple, and then add to flour mixture. Finally add dried fruit, and mix everything together until just moist. (It will be lumpy.) Turn batter into cake tin and bake for 1 to 1 1/4 hours until a chopstick inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. Cool for 10 mins, then run a knife round the edge of the tin and turn out the cake to cool completely. Wrap in plastic wrap or foil and keep in the fridge until needed.
my friend also notes:
In New Zealand, we would cover the cake with marzipan (very sweet paste made of almonds), and then royal icing (highly sweet hard white icing) on top of that. But we don't need all that here! So I usually just drizzle a simple icing over the cake and serve it with candles on Xmas Day. My mum would think this was highly strange, but somehow candles on cakes at Xmas seems quite normal after living in Japan!
Here is a very easy fruitcake to make for Xmas. I sent the recipe to several people told me they had tried it successfully. Dare I say - it is even better than the ones my mum makes!!
1 1/2 cups of any combination of dried fruit (e.g. raisins, sultanas, pitted chopped prunes, candied peel, candied cherries, etc.) 1/2 cup of coarsely chopped nuts (I like walnuts and almonds) 1 medium carrot, grated (makes the mixture nice and moist) 1/3 cup of rum, whiskey or any other boozy beverage, or orange juice if you prefer
1 3/4 cups of flour
1 Tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg (omit if you don't have any!) 1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 large can of crushed pineapple, drained
In a microwave-proof bowl, mix dried fruit, nuts, carrot and boozy beverge (or OJ). Cover with plastic wrap and microwave on high for 2 mins. (Or leave the mixture overnight at room temperature.) Preheat oven to 170 deg. and grease a cake tin with butter. Mix flour, baking powder, spices and sugar in a large bowl. In another bowl, mix eggs, oil and pineapple, and then add to flour mixture. Finally add dried fruit, and mix everything together until just moist. (It will be lumpy.) Turn batter into cake tin and bake for 1 to 1 1/4 hours until a chopstick inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. Cool for 10 mins, then run a knife round the edge of the tin and turn out the cake to cool completely. Wrap in plastic wrap or foil and keep in the fridge until needed.
my friend also notes:
In New Zealand, we would cover the cake with marzipan (very sweet paste made of almonds), and then royal icing (highly sweet hard white icing) on top of that. But we don't need all that here! So I usually just drizzle a simple icing over the cake and serve it with candles on Xmas Day. My mum would think this was highly strange, but somehow candles on cakes at Xmas seems quite normal after living in Japan!
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