225 g butter, softened 4 eggs 200 g sugar 300 g wheat flour 8 g baking powder 150 ml rum 120 g raisins 350 g candied fruits Marmalade jelly Method: Macerate the raisins in rum overnight. Drain the raisins and reserve the remaining rum. Pre-heat the oven to 250ºC. Grease and flour a plum cake pan.
Chop the candied fruits.
Mix the butter and sugar until smooth.
Add the eggs, one at a time, combining well.
Fold in the sifted flour with the baking powder and combine just until smooth.
Add the raisins combining gently with the help of a rubber spatula.
Add the candied fruits following the same procedure.
Pour the batter into the pan.
Place the pan into the oven and reduce temperatur to 180ºC.
As soon as a crust forms on top, make a lenghtwise cut.
Bake for 1 hour.
Remove from heat and let it cool down 10 minutes before unmolding.
Pour the rum on top of the cake and brush with the marmalade jelly.
Decorate with candied fruits.
Let the cake cool down completely.
Preferably prepare the cake 4 days in advance.
Refrigerate covered with wrap film.
Remove from refrigerator 30 minutes – 1 hour before serving.
simple christmas fruit cake :)
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I'm in the States, what size is a plum cake pan?
Some are 10in but most people use 9in springform. If you fill the pan with dry beans and weigh it and then weigh your batter in a bowl on a scale then you can estimate if you wanted a couple smaller pans to give as hostess gifts.
Hello,
I'd like to make cake. Can't see full ingredients.
Like to bake this but can't see total recipe
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