Often liqueur like brandy or grand marnier is added to glaze especially christmas cakes.
Glazed fruit xmas cake.
If the top is uneven trim with a sharp knife to make a flat surface.
Apricot glaze is also used in savoury cooking.
Next fold in the flour chopped almonds cinnamon and then fruit with any juices left in the bowl and treacle.
30g dried apricots finely chopped.
Stand to allow the topping to.
Ruth clemens baker extraordinaire.
Fruitcake bakers use it a lot brushing it onto a cake just out of the oven and usually arranging fruit and or nuts on top and then sealing them on with more glaze or under the marzipan as i use to.
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.
Scroll down for my naked christmas cake with glazed nuts and cherries.
Include about 1 4 cup of preserves or jam for every loaf sized fruitcake.
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.
Just microwave the dried fruit with juice and or brandy then stand for 1 hour to soak up the liquid.
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.
Remove from heat and strain through a sieve to remove any apricot pieces.
Basic clear glaze can be varied for different fruit ingredients 240 ml water apple pear or green grape juice might work too 10ml lemon juice 2 tbsp potato or tapioca starch not corn starch it will make the glaze milky 1 2 tbsp sugar.
Dried fruit mixture for soaking in brandy.
So it s really the same when you make the glaze yourself.
Sliced and then warmed up with a near instant sauce of hot orange juice brandy and a little sugar poured over.
Glazed fruit christmas cake.
Place the cake on a board or flat surface.
So i raided their baking section to come up with the ingredients for my glazed fruit and nut topping.
Spoon the glazed fruits and nuts over the top of the cake to decorate.
Pour the fruit preserves or jam into a small saucepan.
And here s how the making part goes down.
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.
When it comes to serving time transfer it to a plate or clean cake card and wrap a ribbon around the side.
While this cake is excellent sliced and eaten just as it is it is great as a dessert.
How to make christmas cake.
When cool pour over the fruits and nuts and mix to glaze.
Glazed vegan fruit cake.
Christmas cake with glazed fruit nuts.
Add 1 1 2 teaspoons of water for every 1 4 of jam or preserved used.
I take a speedy approach.
