Description
Offer you a recipe of delicious Christmas fruitcake, bake it, preferably 2 months before the festival, so it had time to ripen properly. Christmas cupcake — compulsory festive table decoration. Full-bodied and rich taste, it's just a celebration of taste and aroma... Exclusively for fans of dried fruit! For patiently explaining the intricacies of baking thanks Valya!
Ingredients
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Butter
250 g
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Chicken egg
4 piece
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Brown sugar
250 g
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Flour
300 g
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Nuts
150 g
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Dried fruits
1150 g
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Spices
1 tsp
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Soda
0.25 tsp
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Alcohol
500 ml
Cooking
For Christmas fruitcake desired dried fruit, nuts and spices, I prepared the following ingredients: light raisins - 200 g raisins, dark - 200, sun-dried cherries - 150 g dried cranberries - 150 g dried apricots 250 g prunes - 150 g hazelnut - 150 g, in total 1250 g of dried fruit, you don't need to hang out with an accuracy of 1 g, the error is valid! You can select the squad according to his taste, but within the specified weight! Then you get your cupcake, individual and unique!
We need to nourish the dried fruit with moisture, so they then didn't take her out of the dough and thus not too dry cake. For this you need to wash dried fruit, lightly dry - let it sit in the colander. In order for the structure of the cupcake was more homogeneous without voids to make the cupcake more dense and homogeneous, the fruit is recommended to cut into small pieces the same size. For example, if the raisins are small, the raisins cut in half to the size of raisins, and so on.
Fruit to soak in brandy, cognac or other alcohol, but juice or sugar water. The amount of brandy for soaking to better define the eyes and to soak better in a few days. If the fruit is soaked in a sealed container, for uniform impregnation of the fruit good to turn it (one day – the cover up, next day cover down). I filled the fruits in the region, but after 3 days the amount of alcohol decreased, I fruits has markedly increased in volume.
One hour before baking the cake, the fruit should be removed from the jar and put it in a strainer to drain excess liquid.
In advance to get the butter and eggs out of the fridge to let them warm up. The butter and sugar stir in the cream. Beat eggs and add oil, a little at a time. In the process of whipping and mixing these three products, the oil will "bounce", but it should not disturb you, everything will connect once you add the flour.
For mixing use a 5 litre metal bowl for more from the multi, you can pan. Flour, spices and soda sift and add to fruit, mix well. Attention! It is not necessary to be zealous and interfere with the mixture too long, the flour will start to secrete gluten, I advise you to do it for two minutes.
Then mix with butter mixture. If the oil mixture add to flour, then the fruit can when baking will sink to the bottom.
To the cake evenly cooked, juicy on the inside left and no dried crust on the outside, it is very important to properly prepare the forms. (I have 2 shape with a diameter of 18 cm, but of different heights.) The bottom of the mold to make 2-3 layers of baking paper, sides greased with butter. Then outside the form is wrapped by the newspaper, folded into a long strip, wet cloth over and tie a rope to all of this was kept.
Put the mass into the prepared form. Align the top with a wet hand or a wet silicone spatula. Water will not only help to make the top of the cupcake smooth, but also to prevent in the future the top from cracking.
Immediately close the form with foil and before the end of baking the foil to remove.
Place the cake in a cold oven on a thick layer of wet Newspapers. Set temperature to 134 degrees. Do not check before 4 hours (the time depends on the size of the form). Since the oven temperature is low, the paper does not burn, although some complain that the smell is. Baked several times, the newspaper dries, but does not burn! A cupcake should not be dry after baking. Readiness the designated on dry kindling, it without crumbs! Once the cake is ready (it will take from 4 to 6 hours), wrap it in paper and leave to cool in the baking pan (I left overnight).
Morning to release the cake from mold. These beauties turned out!
When the cake is ready, you can pour it on top of a couple of spoons of brandy, cognac, etc. you Can even prick the surface and pour from the soul. If the children's option, this item be omitted.
Once the cake has cooled, remove it from the form, wrap again in paper...
... then in foil...
... then top the foil and then remove it, I stand on the glassed-in loggia to ripen and matured there for 2 months, otherwise the cake will crumble.
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