The Ultimate Classic Fruit Cake
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 22
- Serves:
-
16
ingredients
- 375 g golden raisins
- 100 ml Grand Marnier
- 4 eggs
- 300 g plain flour
- 375 g unsalted butter
- 300 g dark brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons ground mixed spice
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 lemon, juice of
- 375 g dried apricots
- 375 g sultanas
- 200 g mixed peel
- 100 g red glace cherries
- 150 g walnut halves
- 150 g whole roasted hazelnuts
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Icing
- 1 (340 g) jar apricot jam
- 1 kg ready made marzipan
- 1 kg easy roll icing
- 250 g icing sugar
- 1 egg, separated
- edible food coloring
directions
- Place raisins in a bowl. Add enough grand Marnier/Cointreau to cover them. Cover bowl and leave for 24 hours.
- Preheat oven to 150°C.
- In a large bowl, using a wooden spoon, cream together the butter and sugar.
- Add the eggs one at a time. If mixture looks a bit like splitting, add a little flour.
- Add sifted flour, mixed spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon juice and Grand Marnier. Mix together.
- Gently fold in soaked raisins, dried chopped apricots, sultanas, chopped peel, cherries, walnuts and hazelnuts.
- Spoon the cake mix into 2 greased and lined 22cm spring form tins.
- Bake cakes for 2 1/2 hours to 3 hours.
- Remove and cool on wire rack. Once cool spray with more alcohol and wrap in cling film. Keep cakes in cool dry place until you ice/decorate them.
- ICING: Gently heat jam until spreadable. Spread over top and edges of cake.
- Roll out marzipan very thinly to the circumference of cake, also a strip around width of cake.
- Place marzipan on cake-gently pinch strip around top and side to stick them together. Repeat this with the icing. Mix together icing sugar, egg white and a few drops of food colouring into a smooth paste. Put into icing bag and decorate as desired.
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Reviews
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OMG this is the most fabulous and tasty thing. I made this for family and friends and they simply wanted the plans to create such a wonderful delight. they were use to the plain and drab fruit cakes which most people would gran because they see it. this one however, was a hit and went faster than the prized peanut-butter pie someone brought! Thank you so much!!!
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this is close to the recipe my Mother and I used to bake. I bake fruitcakes every year (about 6 of them) for the family. Instead of GrandMarinier, I use Amaretto. I usually wrap the cakes in cheese cloth when cooled then "marinate" weekly until I mail them off. They travel well, and can be freezed ---- my brother slice them, freeze them, then remove slices as they need them
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