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Christmas Fruit Cake

This Christmas Fruit Cake recipe is exactly what you would expect from crowd-pleasing Christmas dessert. It's festive, flavorful and amazingly delicious. Perfect addition to your Christmas menu.

Prep Time
25 mins
Cook Time
1 hr
Total Time
1 hr 25 mins
Servings: 8
Calories: 548 kcal
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: European

Ingredients

For the batter
  • 2 ¼ c + 3 tbsp all-purpose flour sifted and divided
  • 3 c dry fruits raising, apricots, dry cherries, dry cranberries
  • 8 oz butter softened
  • 1 c sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
For the sugar glaze
  • 1 c powdered sugar sifted
  • 3 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 2 tablespoon cranberries fresh or frozen for garnish
  • 1-2 sprigs rosemary for garnish

Instructions

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  1. Preheat the oven to 360 F and line a standard size loaf pan with parchment paper.
  2. Start off by cutting larger chunks of dry fruits into smaller pieces.
  3. Sprinkle them with ¼ cup of flour and shake off the excess.
  4. In a medium bowl combine 2 cups + 3 tablespoons of flour and 2 teaspoons of baking powder.
  5. In a large bowl add softened butter, sugar, vanilla extract and whisk in eggs, one at a time. It's best to use hand mixer for this.
  6. With a wooden spoon stir in flour and baking powder mixture.
  7. Add in dry fruits and mix everything well.
  8. Pour batter into a loaf pan and bake for 1 hour (depending on your oven this type may vary). On 1 hour mark poke the cake with a wooden toothpick. If it comes out clean, cake is ready. If not - give it another 10 minutes.
  9. Remove cake from the oven and loaf pan and cool it on a wire rack until it's no longer warm.
To make sugar glaze
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  1. In a medium bowl add powdered sugar. Start whisking in lemon juice one tablespoon at a time. Whisk until no lumps remain and the glaze is thick and smooth. If sugar glaze comes out too liquid, you can add a little more powdered sugar.
  2. Spoon sugar glaze over the cake, top with cranberries and decorate with rosemary sprigs.
  3. Let the sugar glaze harden and the cake is ready to be served.

Nutrition Information

Serving 1slice Calories 548kcal (27%) Carbohydrates 74.2g (25%) Protein 7.4g (15%) Fat 26g (40%) Saturated Fat 15.4g (77%) Cholesterol 143mg (48%) Sodium 198mg (8%) Potassium 360mg (10%) Fiber 2.1g (8%) Sugar 45.5g (91%) Calcium 86mg (9%) Iron 2mg (11%)

Nutrition Facts

Serving: 8Serving

Amount Per Serving

Calories 548

% Daily Value*

Serving 1slice
Calories 548kcal 27%
Carbohydrates 74.2g 25%
Protein 7.4g 15%
Fat 26g 40%
Saturated Fat 15.4g 77%
Cholesterol 143mg 48%
Sodium 198mg 8%
Potassium 360mg 8%
Fiber 2.1g 8%
Sugar 45.5g 91%
Calcium 86mg 9%
Iron 2mg 11%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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