Glazed Fruit Xmas Cake

30g dried apricots finely chopped.

Glazed fruit xmas cake.

Stand to allow the topping to. Glazed fruit christmas cake. Glazed vegan fruit cake. And here s how the making part goes down.

How to make christmas cake. Countdown has a fantastic range of nuts and dried fruit in their baking section and leading up to christmas so many of them are on price lockdown or special. Wrap the cake in two pieces of clingfilm to stop the outside edge of the cake from drying out and store in a tin or tub large enough to accommodate it. Dried fruit mixture for soaking in brandy.

When it comes to serving time transfer it to a plate or clean cake card and wrap a ribbon around the side. Don t worry about the keeping quality of this glaze we have stored glazed cakes for three months and they were still in beautiful condition. Finally brush the beautifully arranged nuts and lots more glaze then store the cake in a tin or polythene box until it s needed. Fruitcake bakers use it a lot brushing it onto a cake just out of the oven and usually arranging fruit and or nuts on top and then sealing them on with more glaze or under the marzipan as i use to.

Ruth clemens baker extraordinaire. Scroll down for my naked christmas cake with glazed nuts and cherries. Instructions make fruit cake. Next fold in the flour chopped almonds cinnamon and then fruit with any juices left in the bowl and treacle.

While this cake is excellent sliced and eaten just as it is it is great as a dessert. So it s really the same when you make the glaze yourself. If the top is uneven trim with a sharp knife to make a flat surface. Pour the fruit preserves or jam into a small saucepan.

Remove from heat and strain through a sieve to remove any apricot pieces. Line a cake tin roughly 9 x 3 pour the batter into the lined tin and bake for 6hrs and 20 mins on gas mark 1. The key step that makes this so much faster to make than other fruit cakes is the fruit soaking step most recipes call for dried fruit to be soaked overnight. Sliced and then warmed up with a near instant sauce of hot orange juice brandy and a little sugar poured over.

I take a speedy approach. Basic clear glaze can be varied for different fruit ingredients 240 ml water apple pear or green grape juice might work too 10ml lemon juice 2 tbsp potato or tapioca starch not corn starch it will make the glaze milky 1 2 tbsp sugar. Apricot glaze is also used in savoury cooking. Often liqueur like brandy or grand marnier is added to glaze especially christmas cakes.

Include about 1 4 cup of preserves or jam for every loaf sized fruitcake. Just microwave the dried fruit with juice and or brandy then stand for 1 hour to soak up the liquid. So i raided their baking section to come up with the ingredients for my glazed fruit and nut topping. Add 1 1 2 teaspoons of water for every 1 4 of jam or preserved used.

Place the cake on a board or flat surface.