Quick One-Day Moist Fruitcake
This is a great recipe for a last minute fruitcake. It's nice and moist and only takes a day to make! Substitute your favorite dried fruits, nuts, and liqueur.
Makes a 9" round or 8" square.
Ingredients:
2½ lbs Mixed dried fruit/glace fruit
2 sticks + 2 tbsp Butter
1¼ cups Brown sugar
1 tbsp Corn syrup
½ lemon, juice and zest
¼ tsp Nutmeg
¼ tsp Allspice
¼ tsp Cloves
¼ tsp Salt
1 tsp Cinnamon
½ tsp Curry powder
2½ oz Blanched almonds, chopped
¾ cup Brandy
1 tbsp Cornflour
4 Eggs
2 cups Flour
1 tsp Baking powder
1 tsp Baking soda
Preheat oven to 320ºF/160ºC.
Line baking pan with baking parchment. If using a regular baking pan, wrap some newsprint or parcel paper around the outside of the pan and secure with baking twine.
In a large pot, bring fruit, butter, brown sugar, and corn syrup to a boil, stirring constantly.
Once bubbling, add in lemon zest, lemon juice, nutmeg, allspice, cloves, cinnamon, curry powder, salt, almonds, and brandy.
Simmer for 10 min, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat and cool completely.
Once cool, stir in corn flour.
Mix in eggs, then flour, baking powder, and baking soda.
Scrape into prepared pan.
Bake at 320ºF/160ºC for 30min. Then reduce temperature to 250ºF/120ºC and bake for 3½ hrs or until done.
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