Glazed Fruit Cake

In another bowl cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy.

Glazed fruit cake.

A beautiful moist gluten free cake packed with zingy citrus flavours wonderful for christmas. 1 x 8 christmas cake. Glace mixed fruit which is sometimes called candied or crystalized fruit has existed since the 14th century. 3 tbsps apricot jam.

Beat in eggs and vanilla. The butter mix will start to cool and thicken. Keep your fruitcake moist and infuse it with additional fruit flavor by preparing a simple glaze. Combine flour baking powder and salt.

Make the hot toddy cake see link right in a loose bottom tin holding back about 2 tbsp of the mix for later. Gently push the nuts and glace cherries on to the cake in any design you wish using the sticky jam as glue. Make a red fruit cake glaze use red grape juice for cakes that contain red fruit strawberries blueberries raspberries. I baked these for the whole night.

Melt the butter and golden syrup together then toss with the nuts dried fruit and seeds. For a scrumptious tropical treat pineapple upside down cakes are often topped with glazed red cherries and rings of glazed pineapple. A traditional moist fruit cake made with rum soaked dried fruit citrus zest and candied ginger. Preheat oven to 300.

You always can use the juice of the fruit that you use for the cake eg sour cherries from the jar always have some liquid. This easy fruit cake by one of our younger readers bree hamilton is simple uses storecupboard ingredients and is perfect for a quick winter pick me up 45 mins. Selections vary from whole fruit to smaller pieces of cut fruit or even the peel rind of the fruit. How to glaze a fruitcake.

Combine fruit and nuts. While it bakes bake the fruit and nut topping. These fruits are placed in a hot sugar syrup which absorbs the moisture from the fruit and preserves it. Glazed fruit is perhaps most widely recognized for its use in fruit cakes.

Candied fruit is also commonly used in preparations of the italian sweet bread panettone or to add a colorful mosaic look to cookies pastries and biscotti. Because fruitcakes are often prepared months in advance a glaze is necessary to lock in moisture and guarantee a flavorful cake. Transfer to a greased and floured 10 in. Finally heat a little more jam and brush over the top of the nuts and cherries to give a shiny finish.

Melt 2 tbsp of apricot jam and brush over the cake. Reduce amount of sugar accordingly because the juice is already sweet. Recipes for these holiday cakes usually call for a combination of diced assorted fruits such as glazed mixed peel. The glaze also gives your cake an eye catching sheen.

Then glazed it with apricot preserves after it cooled. Pour over fruit and nuts. After the cake was done i mixed orange juice lemon juice and bit of triple sec together and brushed the cake. The best fruit cake recipe you ll ever make.

10 ratings 4 6 out of 5 star rating. Add to creamed mixture and mix well. Place them in a bowl with the whole glace cherries and dried cranberries.