Add 1 1 2 teaspoons of water for every 1 4 of jam or preserved used.
Glazed fruit christmas cake.
Spoon the glazed fruits and nuts over the top of the cake to decorate.
When cool pour over the fruits and nuts and mix to glaze.
Just microwave the dried fruit with juice and or brandy then stand for 1 hour to soak up the liquid.
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Using a pastry brush or tablespoon glaze the toppings with more jam.
Don t worry about the keeping quality of this glaze we have stored glazed cakes for three months and they were still in beautiful condition.
Unless you love fruit cake.
When it comes to serving time transfer it to a plate or clean cake card and wrap a ribbon around the side.
Christmas cake with glazed fruit nuts.
Line a cake tin roughly 9 x 3 pour the batter into the lined tin and bake for 6hrs and 20 mins on gas mark 1.
Include about 1 4 cup of preserves or jam for every loaf sized fruitcake.
While this cake is excellent sliced and eaten just as it is it is great as a dessert.
Next fold in the flour chopped almonds cinnamon and then fruit with any juices left in the bowl and treacle.
Every body makes fun of fruit cake.
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Remove from heat and strain through a sieve to remove any apricot pieces.
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Glazed fruit christmas cake.
Finally brush the beautifully arranged nuts and lots more glaze then store the cake in a tin or polythene box until it s needed.
Stand to allow the topping to.
Grandma s fruitcake old fashioned christmas fruit and nut cake recipe no citron or bitter candied fruit from beatrice bakery in 2lb ring in holiday gift box.
I take a speedy approach.
Place the cake on a board or flat surface.
Countdown has a fantastic range of nuts and dried fruit in their baking section and leading up to christmas so many of them are on price lockdown or special.
Glazed vegan fruit cake.
So i raided their baking section to come up with the ingredients for my glazed fruit and nut topping.
Dried fruit mixture for soaking in brandy.
Sliced and then warmed up with a near instant sauce of hot orange juice brandy and a little sugar poured over.
If the top is uneven trim with a sharp knife to make a flat surface.
And here s how the making part goes down.
The glazed fruits pieces are colorful and pieces distinct not clumped together.
Arrange the fruit and nuts on top in neat rows or higgledy piggledy.
Leave to set then decorate with a ribbon.
The key step that makes this so much faster to make than other fruit cakes is the fruit soaking step most recipes call for dried fruit to be soaked overnight.
30g dried apricots finely chopped.
