TEEN CHEF - Fruit Cake

with Gavin Plowright

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

ON the morning of Christmas it can be a wonderful feeling to know that at the end of the dinner there is cake and sorrel for dessert. TEENChef already helped you with the sorrel, so how about doing the cake yourself too?

Following each step closely will create a moist and delicious product that will pull you to more than one slices each time you are ready to eat. You are guaranteed to yearn for more when it's finished and will wish everyone a Merry Christmas just to create the environment and mood for the cake. It's a reason for the season!!

INGREDIENTS

1lb butter

1lb sugar (brown)

1lb flour

7 eggs

2 fl oz vanilla

10 oz prune

10 oz currant

10 oz raisins

10 oz cherries

2 tsp baking Powder

1/2 gal fruit Wine (Red Label Wine)

2 tbsp cinnamon

2 tsp mixed Spice

2 tsp nutmeg

2 fl oz almond extract or flavouring

1 bottle browning (as needed)

METHOD

1 Preheat oven. Grease baking pan with butter and lightly dust with flour.

2 Combine butter and sugar and mix until smooth and fluffy, scraping down the sides of the bowl to ensure even mixing.

3 Blend all fruits with wine to your desire (the longer they are blended, the smoother they become) and set aside.

4 Break eggs separately and add them a little at a time to the butter and sugar mixture while continuing to mix.

5 Measure out the dry ingredients (cinnamon, nutmeg, mixed spice, flour, baking powder) and sieve into a container.

6 Add dry ingredients gradually to the mixture and mix thoroughly after each addition.

7 When properly mixed, add almond flavouring and vanilla and continue to mix, then add the fruits to the batter mixture.

8 Adjust the colour of the batter by adding the browning

9 Pour mixture into baking tins and bake for at least 45 minutes or until knife comes out clean.

NB: Do not attempt without parental supervision.

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TEEN CHEF - Fruit Cake