It smells like christmas is in the air.
Rum fruit cake ingredients.
Ingredients 1 1 2 cups whole red candied cherries 1 1 2 cups whole green candied cherries 3 cups diced candied pineapple 1 pound walnut halves 10 ounces golden raisins 1 cup shortening 1 cup sugar 5 large eggs 4 tablespoons vanilla extract 3 cups all purpose flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 1.
Whisk together flour baking soda salt and cinnamon.
With its two key ingredients rum and butter it ought to be a hit.
Mix into butter and sugar in three batches alternating with molasses and milk.
1 1 2 cups 223g chopped dates.
Bring mixture to a boil stirring often then reduce.
1 1 2 cups 255g raisins golden or regular.
Prunes currants raisins and glaced cherries are chopped finely then soaked in red wine and dark rum for months and years on end.
Stir in soaked fruit and chopped nuts.
1 3 cup 64g diced crystallized ginger.
If you have a week or two do it couple of times.
Any kind of rum dark preferably.
Alternatively use an injection needle and inject some rum into the cake randomly.
Wrap the cake in plastic wrap to keep moisture in.
When baking my home is fragranced with the cake s citrusy notes.
Scrape batter into prepared pan.
Poke a toothpick across the top of the cake penetrating deeply.
Ingredients 3 4 cup all purpose flour 1 2 teaspoon baking powder 1 4 teaspoon salt 2 cups chopped walnuts 1 package 8 ounces pitted dates chopped 1 cup maraschino cherries halved 1 2 cup dried mangoes chopped 3 large eggs room temperature 3 4 cup packed brown sugar 1 cup spiced rum divided.
This recipe includes dried fruit instead of the glowing candied stuff we ve all learned to associate with fruitcake and is less dense and more cake like than many fruitcake recipes.
In a medium bowl with lid add all of your chopped fruits and add 1 4 cup dark rum cover and soak over night or few hours at room temperature.
Ingredients 16 ounces pitted dates 32 ounces candied red whole cherries 24 ounces candied green whole cherries 24 ounces candied pineapple 16 ounces pecans optional nuts you choose 3 cups apple sauce 1 cup coconut oil or 1 cup butter 1 1 2 cups white sugar or raw sugar 4 1 2 cups all purpose.
1 1 2 cups 213g diced dried pineapple.
Sprinkle a cap of rum across the top of the cake.
Heaping 1 cup 170g candied red cherries plus additional for decoration if desired.
Place fruit and liquid in a non reactive pot with the sugar butter apple juice and spices.
Combine dried fruits candied ginger and both zests.
The fruit mixture is added to cake batter along with aromatic flavorings and warm spices.
In another bowl sift together flour baking soda sea salt and cinnamon.