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Xmas Fruit Cake
Xmas Fruit Cake

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The ingredients needed to cook Xmas Fruit Cake:
  1. Provide Fruits:
  2. Use 163 g Dried Fruits Mix Preferably Foodsterr,
  3. Provide 75 g Dates Pitted Quartered,
  4. Take 50 g Glazed Cherries Halved,
  5. You need 50 g Crystallized Ginger Quartered,
  6. Get Cointreau / Brandy / Dark Rum, 180ml + More For Feeding
  7. Provide Cake:
  8. Prepare Unsalted Butter Softened, 138g + More For Greasing
  9. Provide 69 g Light Muscovado Sugar,
  10. Prepare 69 g Demerara Sugar,
  11. Prepare 3 Eggs,
  12. Prepare 38 g Almond Meal,
  13. You need Fresh Orange Zest, 1 Orange
  14. You need 1/4 TSP Ground Cloves,
  15. Use 1/4 TSP Ground Cinnamon,
  16. You need Pinch Nutmeg Freshly Grated,
  17. Get 1/4 TSP All Spice Powder,
  18. Use 138 g Unbleached All Purpose Flour,
  19. Prepare 20 g Roasted Hazelnuts Halved,
  20. Use 20 g Roasted Walnuts Quartered,
  21. Use Gingerbread Houses:
  22. Use 350 g Unbleached All Purpose Flour,
  23. Prepare 10 g Baking Powder,
  24. Use 170 g Demerara Sugar,
  25. Use Pinch Sea Salt,
  26. Use 1/2 TSP All Spice Powder,
  27. You need 100 g Unsalted Butter Cubed,
  28. Take 70 g Pure Honey,
  29. Get 20 g Blackstrap Molasses,
  30. Use 1 Egg,
  31. Use Royal Icing:
  32. Take 1 Egg White,
  33. Get Pinch Cream of Tartar,
  34. Prepare 200 g Icing Sugar,
  35. Provide Decor:
  36. Take Apricot Jam
  37. Use Marzipan
  38. Get Edible Glisters
Steps to make Xmas Fruit Cake:
  1. Soaking the fruits. - - Transfer everything into a large bowl. - - Toss to mix well. - - Cover with cling film and set aside in a cool and dry place for at least 24 hrs.
  2. Prepare the cake. - - Preheat oven to 150 degrees celsius or 300 fahrenheit. - - Grease cake pan with butter. - - Lay parchment paper on the bottom and the sides of the cake pan.
  3. Cut out a large piece of aluminium foil. - - Fold the foil into a strap with a width almost the same as your cake pan. - - Wrap the cake pan with that folded foil and tied it tightly with a thread. - - This is to allow even browning.
  4. In a large bowl, cream butter until light and fluffy with a hand or stand mixer. - - Add in sugar and cream until well combined. - - Add in eggs and continue whisking.
  5. Add in almond meal, orange zest and the spices. - - You can make your own almond meal by grinding almond in a spice blender. - - Continue whisking until well combined. - - Fold in the flour with a spatula 1/3 portion at a time until fully incorporated.
  6. Next, fold in the nuts. - - Lastly, the dried fruits mix with any leftover alcohol. - - Transfer into the cake pan. - - Using an offset spatula to level the top.
  7. Wack into the oven and bake for 2 to 3 hrs. - - Check regularly after the 1 hr mark. - - The internal temperature should read 90 degree celsius or 200 fahrenheit. - - The cake should also pass a skewer test.
  8. You should have a dark brown color on the cake. - - Remove from oven and set aside to cool completely before unmolding about 5 hrs. - - Once the cake is completely cooled, unmold and transfer onto surface lined with cling film. - - Poke a few holes on the cake with a skewer.
  9. Feed the cake with 1 TBSP of Cointreau or any liqueur of your choice. - - Cover and wrap the cake with parchment paper. - - You can store the cake for a couple of months in a cool and dry place. The flavors will intensify.
  10. Feed the cake once every week, - - Feeding the cake will keep the cake moist and dense. - - Making gingerbread houses. - - In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and all spice well.
  11. Add in the butter. - - You can cream everything together with a fork, but I prefer using my hands. - - You should get a crumbly mixture resembling wet sand. - - Add in honey, molasses and egg.
  12. Mix until it comes together into a dough. - - Wrap it with cling film and chill in the fridge for about 1 hr. - - Remove from fridge and divide the dough into half. - - You can freeze the other half. It will last for 3 months.
  13. Transfer the dough onto a parchment paper. - - Place another parchment paper over the dough. - - Roll the dough into a large rectangle with a thickness of 1/8 inch. - - Freeze the dough for 30 mins.
  14. Preheat oven to 180 degree celsius or 360 fahrenheit. - - I measured the circumference of my cake which reads 64cm. - - So I divided 64 into 8 = 8cm. Each house is 8cm in width. - - I also measured the height of my cake with is about 4cm. So, each house will be more than 4cm in height.
  15. I use cupboard to draw and design the houses. - - After 30 mins, remove the dough from the freezer. - - The dough should be big enuff for all the houses. - - Place another baking tray on top of the dough.
  16. Wack into the oven and bake for 12 mins. - - Remove from oven and set aside to cool slightly. - - Place the houses onto the gingerbread and using a sharp knife and cut out the houses. - - Transfer the houses onto a baking tray lined with parchment paper.
  17. Wack into the oven and bake for another 10 to 12 mins or until deep brownish. - - Remove from oven and set aside to cool completely. - - Prepare the royal icing. - - In a large bowl, add in egg whites and cream of tartar.
  18. Using a hand or stand mixer, whisk until stiff peaks. - - Add in icing sugar, 1 tbsp at at a time, while still whisking. - - Once it gets thick, shiny and glossy, stop adding the sugar. - - You should have a honey-syrupy consistency, but not runny and not too thick.
  19. Transfer into a piping bag with a small circle tip. - - Pipe the designs on the gingerbread. - - Get artsy! - - The royal icing will harden overtime. - - You can freeze any remaining royal icing for up to 1 month.
  20. Assemble the cake. - - Brush the whole cake lightly with apricot jam. - - Transfer the fruit cake on a cake stand or a serving plate.
  21. Pipe some more royal icing on the back of the gingerbread houses. This will act as a glue. - - Stick the gingerbread houses onto the side of the cake. - - Roll out the marzipan into a 1/8 inch thickness. If your marzipan gets too sticky and difficult to roll, dust the surface + rolling pin with some icing sugar.
  22. Using your desired Xmas theme cookie cutter and cut out the marzipan. I am using snowflakes cookie cutter. - - Transfer the marzipan onto the fruit cake. - - Lastly dust with your desired edible glisters. - - Slice and serve. - - The fruit cake will keep well in the fridge for a few weeks.

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