Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chocolate fruit cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Chocolate Fruit Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Chocolate Fruit Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chocolate fruit cake using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Fruit Cake:
- Make ready 350 grams Dried Prunes (chopped)
- Prepare 250 grams Raisins
- Prepare 125 grams Currants
- Prepare 175 grams Butter
- Prepare 175 grams Molasses Sugar
- Take 175 ml Honey
- Prepare 125 ml Coffee Liqueur
- Prepare 2 Oranges (Zested & Juiced)
- Take 1 tsp Mixed Spice
- Prepare 2 tbsp Cocoa
- Get 3 Eggs (Beaten)
- Get 150 grams Flour
- Make ready 75 grams Almonds (Ground)
- Get 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
- Get 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
A sinfully rich Chocolate Fruit cake with mixed fruits that have been steeped in rum for over a year, cocoa powder and mixed spice. I adapted David Lebovitz's Chocolate cherry cake recipe. This chocolate fruit cake is a little out of my comfort zone - but I just had to give it a try. I was watching Nigella's Christmas special last holiday season, and saw her make a fantastic chocolate fruit cake.
Steps to make Chocolate Fruit Cake:
- Prehead oven to 150°C - Line cake tin with baking parchment strips
- Place fruit, butter, sugar, honey, coffee liqueuer, orange zest & juice, mixed spice and cocoa into a large wide saucepan. Heat until reaching a gentle boil, stirring the mixture as the butter melts. Allow to simmer for 10 mins. Leave to cool for 30 mins.
- Add eggs, flour, ground almonds, baking powder & baking soda. Mix well with spatula until ingredients have combined.
- Mix in coffee liqueur
- Carefully pour into tin. - Do not overfill - rises quite a bit.Bake for 105 to 120 minutes or until the top of the cake is firm & has a shiny, sticky look. - Inserting a sharp knife into the cake, should reveal a slightly undercooked middle!
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