Fruitcake is a flavorful, rich, and dense yet moist cake packed with different kinds of candied or dried fruits, nuts, and spices, and optionally soaked in alcohol. This easy fruitcake is our family’s favorite, and perfect for the holidays.
Yields:
1 Loaf ( 9*5 )
1 Loaf ( 9*5 )
Preparation Time:
15 minutes + Soaking the Fruit
15 minutes + Soaking the Fruit
Cooking Time:
1 hour 30 minutes – 1 hour 35 minutes
1 hour 30 minutes – 1 hour 35 minutes
Difficulty Level:
Easy
Easy
Ingredients
- Dried Fruit & Nuts , chopped – 2 1/2 cups (Soaked in Rum or Orange Juice – 1 1/4 cups – 1 1/2 cups) Check This Out : Christmas Fruit Cake : Part 1 : Soak Your Fruit
- All-purpose flour – 1 1/2 cups + 1/4 cup ( for tossing the fruits )
- Baking powder – 2 tsp
- Ground cinnamon – 1/2 tsp
- Ground nutmeg – 1/4 tsp
- Salt – 1/4 tsp
- Unsalted butter, room temperature – 1 cup / 2 sticks
- Brown sugar – 1 1/2 cups
- Large eggs , room temperature – 3
- Vanilla extract – 1 tsp
- Milk, room temperature – 1/4 cup
- Plain yogurt, room temperature – 1/2 cup
Instructions
Preheat oven to 325°F. Butter and flour a 9-inch loaf pan.
Strain soaked fruit into a separate bowl. Reserve the liquid. Toss soaked fruit with 1/4 cup of flour. Set aside. Check This Out : Christmas Fruit Cake : Part 1 : Soak Your Fruit
Combine baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt and 1 1/2 cups of flour in a medium bowl and keep aside.
Combine milk and yogurt in separate bowl. Set aside.
Beat together the butter and sugar until fluffy.
Add in the eggs one at a time, scraping the bowl after each addition.
Add about 1/3 of the flour mixture into the butter mixture followed by about 1/3 of the milk mixture. Continue the process of alternating between the flour & milk and beat on low speed until just incorporated. Do not over mix ( you can just use a spatula at this point to avoid over-mixing ).
Gently fold in the floured fruits and nuts until evenly distributed.
Spoon the batter into the prepared 9×5 inch loaf pan. Bake at 325°F for approximately 55 minutes and then reduce temperature to 300°F and bake for another 35 to 40 minutes until fruitcake is golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
Remove the cake from the oven and place it on a wire rack to cool completely. Then, with a skewer, poke holes in the top surface of the cake and liberally brush with alcohol or orange juice, or simple syrup (optional). This will make the fruitcake more moist.
Wrap tightly with plastic wrap and then in aluminum foil to store or serve immediately. ENJOY !!
Nutritional Information & Ways to Burn :
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Walking
3 mph for 2 hour 19 minutes
Running
6 mph for 46 minutes
Bicycling
10-12 mph for 1 hour 16 minutes
Aerobics Low-Impact
1 hour 36 minutes
Aerobics High-Impact
68 minutes
Stair Stepper
53 minutes
Values estimated based on person weighing 140 lbs.