Rich Christmas Fruit Cake⧸Christmas Cake Recipe⧸Easy Fruit Cake Recipe

It's Christmas time! The one thing that you absolutely love to make for Christmas is a fruitcake. This fruitcake recipe is simple and easy to make and this lovely Christmas cake is packed with fruits and flavor and they are sweet, rich and moist and this all-in-one Christmas cake recipe creates that unique Christmas aroma that you will never forget and today let's see how to make this wonderful Christmas cake in five simple steps. For making this Christmas cake, we'll need all the four main ingredients in the same quantity that is 220 grams of flour, 220 grams of butter, 220 grams of brown sugar and three large eggs which is approximately 220 grams and then we need baking powder one teaspoon, vanilla sugar one teaspoon and salt half a teaspoon and then we need to add that special ingredient that gives that typical smell and flavor to our Christmas cake that is zest of one large lemon and orange and mixed spices one teaspoon and for the dried fruits here I have taken 50 grams of apricots and 50 grams of walnuts and 140 grams of cranberries and 200 grams of prunes and 250 grams of raisins and you can add your own favorite fruits and make your own fruit mix. The only thing is that to make a rich fruit cake we need to add approximately 600 to 800 grams of dried fruits. So let's start making the cake batter. I always start by creaming the butter and the sugar. You can use a hand mixer Here I'm using a whisk and a spatula to do this and the second step is to add the eggs one egg at a time and the third step is to sift in the flour mix which is the combination of flour, baking powder, salt and vanilla sugar. If you don't have vanilla sugar you can add the vanilla essence directly into the cake batter. Mix this dry ingredients well until they are well combined and be careful not to over mix the batter as it can cause the gluten to develop which can result in a tough cake and now before adding this special ingredients let's give them all a good mix and then add in two tablespoons of flour to dust the fruits and this will prevent those juicy fruits from sticking together as well as it also prevents them from sinking down to the bottom of the pan while baking and now the fourth step that is to add in the special ingredients into the cake batter transfer the batter onto a baking vessel which is already greased with butter and dusted with flour and this is a 20 centimeter pan and using the same recipe we are going to prepare one more cake this pan size is 18 centimeters and smaller the pan size the longer the baking time and now the final step that is to bake at 350 Fahrenheit preheated oven for two to three hours and you can test the doneness of the cake by pocking a skewer into the center of the cake and if it comes out clean our cake is done this easy fruit cake is fruity nutty rich and flavorful and they are moist and I just love the combination of fruits and nuts and barely enough cake batter to hold it all together I hope you enjoyed this video and I hope this video helped you and I hope you will try this recipe for this Christmas and I'm sure you will love it and thank you so much for your love and support and thanks for watching this video and please don't forget to subscribe this channel for more recipes