How To Prep Healthy Christmas Fruit Cake

Christmas Fruit Cake.

You can cook Christmas Fruit Cake using 16 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Christmas Fruit Cake

1. It's of Dry fruits.
2. Prepare 1 cup of Cashew nut (chopped).
3. You need 2 cups of Rum brandy or.
4. Prepare 1/2 kg of Sugar.
5. You need 1 1/2 cups of Water.
6. Prepare 5 of Clove.
7. It's 3/4 tsp of Cinnamon.
8. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Nutmeg.
9. You need 500 kg of Flour.
10. Prepare 2 tsps of Baking powder.
11. You need 1 tsp of Baking soda.
12. It's 1/2 kg of Butter.
13. It's 1/2 kg of sugar Powdered.
14. Prepare 10 of Egg.
15. You need 1 tsp of Vanilla essence.
16. You need 3/4 cup of Orange juice.

Christmas Fruit Cake instructions

1. Soak the fruits in brandy or rum for at least a month..
2. Grease and line 2 round pans and preaheat the baking oven to 180°..
3. Heat and melt the sugar in a pan. When the color of the melted sugar become dark brown, remove from  heat and add 1 1/2 warm water.  Bring it back to the fire and boil for few miniutes and remove from the fire..
4. Sift the flour, baking soda, baking powder and spices together and keep it a side..
5. Beat butter and sugar very well and then add eggs one by one beating well. Then add flour and gently fold it..
6. Finally add cooled caramel, vanilla, orange juice and soaked fruits and combine very well..
7. Transfer the cake batter in to the prepared pans and bake the cake in preheated oven and bake for approx 1 hour..
8. Remove from oven and decorate as you may wish including icing..