Boozy Fruit Soak For Your Christmas Cake. Soaking the fruit for a good six weeks before we even bake the cake. If you're Christmas crazy like I am you won't mind one bit starting early. Six weeks soaking and you will have the most fab fruit to make your Christmas cake with, I'll be back of course with a reminder on how to do it but the recipe.
This will soften the dried fruit - making for plump rum-soaked fruit.
Is this like traditional Christmas cake that would benefit from being made weeks in advance or is it best.
Speedy Christmas Cake that requires no overnight fruit soaking!
You can cook Boozy Fruit Soak For Your Christmas Cake using 2 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Boozy Fruit Soak For Your Christmas Cake
- Prepare 2 cups of Chopped dried fruit and nut of your choice.
- You need 1 cup of dark rum.
A slice of Rum or Brandy infused fruitcake heralds the warmth of Christmas. If a bite of boozy doesn't give you the warm and fuzzies, I don't know what will! This Christmas cake is absolutely wonderful. I've made several have substituted the mango with Papaya raisins etc. and it still turns out perfect.
Boozy Fruit Soak For Your Christmas Cake instructions
- Finely chop up the dried fruits and nuts..
- In a clean, dry glass or ceramic jar, add the chopped dry fruits and nuts and the rum. Mix well together with a wooden spoon..
- Seal the jar with a lid and keep in a cool, dry place away from sunlight..
- Every two or three days, give the fruit a mix and add about ¼ cup more rum if it looks too dry..
- You can throw in any dried fruit of your choice. I used dates, sultanas, a mixture of golden and black raisins, dried figs, dried apricot, and cashew. Candied Ginger and Orange are quite often added to the traditional cakes, but these don't favor my palate and hence I have left it out. Feel free to add in case you like these flavors..
- I have soaked Cashew along with the dried fruit. You really don't need to. If you like your nuts crisp, chop them and add along with an assortment of other nuts directly into your cake batter..
- You can also use Whiskey, Brandy, or good quality Port or Sherry to replace the rum used in the recipe..
- If you are looking at an alcohol-free version of cake, you can soak the dried fruit and nut in freshly squeezed orange juice. But please remember that such a cake will have a short shelf life as opposed to the cake containing alcohol soaked fruits..
- Please remember to use only glass or ceramic jars to soak the fruits. Metallic or plastic containers may not be your best choice as the alcohol may react with the metal or plastic which could be harmful..
My sisters and I always joke about getting Gramma a fruit cake for Christmas. But now gramma requests this one. Vegan Christmas cake - a rich, moist and boozy vegan fruit cake that is perfect for the festive season. Eat right away or make in advance and feed The fruit can be left to soak for up to a week - I gave mine three days. The boozy fruit is stirred into a thick batter made flavourful with dark brown.