Sieve the flour with the baking powder and mix in the spice powder. || Soak the mixed fruit in alcohol for 4 days and drain out the excess alcohol from the fruit
Ingredients
- 100g - All purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp - Baking powder
- 1/2 tsp - Spice powder
- Rum - to soak mixed fruit
- 200g - Mixed candied peel, raisins, and glaced cherries, soaked in alcohol.
- 100g - Butter or margarine
- Milk- for folding into flour
- 1 tsp - Caramel syrup
- 80g - Sugar, castor
- 1 tsp - Caramel colour
- 1 tsp - Glycerine
- 2- Eggs
- 1 tsp - Black currants essence
How to Make Christmas Cake with Rum-soaked fruit
- Sieve the flour with the baking powder and mix in the spice powder.
- Soak the mixed fruit in alcohol for 4 days and drain out the excess alcohol from the fruit; mix it into the flour.
- Cream the butter and gradually add the sugar.
- Now add the caramel syrup, glycerine, and the caramel colour, and blend well.
- Add the eggs and essence and blend well.
- Now fold in the flour, adding water or milk if necessary to get a dropping consistency.
- Then pour the batter into a greased, lined, and dusted six-inch tin and bake at 160 degrees centigrade for one hour ten minutes.
- Recipe Courtesy: Mangalorean Recipes.