Step-by-Step Guide to Make Ultimate Boiled fruit cake

Boiled fruit cake.

Hey everyone, I hope you're having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, boiled fruit cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Boiled fruit cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It's appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Boiled fruit cake is something which I've loved my entire life. They're fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have boiled fruit cake using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Boiled fruit cake:

1. {Get 500 g of mixed fruit- I used raisins, dried cranberries, mixed peel.
2. {Get 400 g of tin of tropical fruit with juices- crushed.
3. {Take 125 g of butter - chopped.
4. {Prepare 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence.
5. {Prepare 1 tablespoon of brandy (sherry or orange juice is fine).
6. {Make ready 1 cup (250 ml) of size) soft brown sugar.
7. {Make ready 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda.
8. {Get 1 cup (250 ml) of size) self raising flour- you can use wholemeal.
9. {Get 1 cup of plain flour.
10. {Get of Grated nutmeg and orange peel.
11. {Take 2 of eggs, lightly beaten.
12. {Take 180 C of oven.

Steps to make Boiled fruit cake:

1. Place crushed tropical fruit, dried fruit, butter, sugar, vanilla essence and brandy in a saucepan and heat gently until the butter has melted..
2. Bring mixtures to the boil and then simmer for approx. 5 minutes.
3. Cool.
4. Sift plain flour, self-raising flour and bicarbonate of soda together.
5. Add beaten eggs to cooled fruit mixture. Stir gently..
6. Add dry flour mixture and stir..
7. Place mixture in a prepared 20cm round cake tin. Sprinkle with sugar for a crunchy top (optional)..
8. Bake 180C for approx 1.5 hours. Skewer test the middle after 1 hour 15 minutes to check if the cake is cooked or needs a little longer. Cool slightly then turn out onto a wire rack to cool fully..

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