Poke a toothpick across the top of the cake penetrating deeply.
Rum fruit cake ingredients.
Add rum and macerate overnight or microwave for 5 minutes to re hydrate fruit.
Alternatively use an injection needle and inject some rum into the cake randomly.
Stir in soaked fruit and chopped nuts.
It smells like christmas is in the air.
Mix into butter and sugar in three batches alternating with molasses and milk.
Wrap the cake in plastic wrap to keep moisture in.
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 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.
Scrape batter into prepared pan.
Sprinkle a cap of rum across the top of the cake.
In another bowl sift together flour baking soda sea salt and cinnamon.
If you have a week or two do it couple of times.
1 1 2 cups 223g chopped dates.
Heaping 1 cup 170g candied red cherries plus additional for decoration if desired.
Bring mixture to a boil stirring often then reduce.
The fruit mixture is added to cake batter along with aromatic flavorings and warm spices.
Any kind of rum dark preferably.
1 3 cup 64g diced crystallized ginger.
Whisk together flour baking soda salt and cinnamon.
1 1 2 cups 213g diced dried pineapple.
With its two key ingredients rum and butter it ought to be a hit.
1 cup 128g diced dried apricots.
Prunes currants raisins and glaced cherries are chopped finely then soaked in red wine and dark rum for months and years on end.
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.
In a large bowl cream together butter and brown sugar add egg mix together.
Place fruit and liquid in a non reactive pot with the sugar butter apple juice and spices.
When baking my home is fragranced with the cake s citrusy notes.
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.