Step-by-Step Guide to Make Homemade Christmas Fruit Cake

Christmas Fruit Cake.

You can have Christmas Fruit Cake using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Christmas Fruit Cake

1. You need 225 grams of butter.
2. Prepare 200 grams of brown sugar.
3. You need 2 teaspoons of orange zest.
4. Prepare 1 tablespoon of treacle syrup.
5. It's 3 of eggs.
6. Prepare 275 grams of plain flour.
7. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon powder.
8. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of ginger powder.
9. It's 1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg.
10. You need 1/4 teaspoon of soda bi carb.
11. It's 2 tbsp of milk.
12. It's 50 grams of glazed cherries.
13. You need 50 grams of raisins.
14. Prepare 50 grams of sultanas.
15. You need 100 grams of dates.
16. It's 50 grams of tutti frutti.
17. It's 25 grams of almonds.
18. Prepare 25 grams of cashew nuts.

Christmas Fruit Cake step by step

1. Mix and sieve plain flour, cinnamon powder, ginger powder, nutmeg and soda bi carb in a bowl..
2. Chop all the dry fruits and add 1 tbsp plain flour to it and mix it very well so that it doesn't sink to the bottom of the cake while baking..
3. In a bowl take butter which is kept at room temperature and brown sugar and beat it with the help of an electric beater or with a whisk until creamy. Now and orange zest and treacle syrup to it and beat it again. You can add dark caramel syrup instead of treacle syrup. Now add eggs one by one and keep on beating. Do not add all the eggs at one time..
4. Now add flour mix little by little to it and mix everything well with the help of a spatula. Add milk and mix everything well..
5. Now add prepared dry fruits to it and mix everything well. Grease and line 9 inch baking tin and add the prepared fruit cake mixture to it and level it. I have used 5.5 inch round tin and a medium size bread loaf tin here..
6. Bake the cake in the preheated oven at 160 degree for 1 hour. If the tins are small, then it will be baked in one hour but if you are using 9 inch tin then after 1 hour reduce the oven temperature to 150 degree and bake it for another 30 minutes until done. Now take out the cake tin and leave it for 5 minutes then take it out from the tin and put it on the wire rack and let it cool down completely..
7. Cut and store the fruit cake in an airtight container..