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    Desserts-Cake: Easter Fruit Cake


    Source of Recipe


    hokerycookery.com

    Recipe Introduction


    A simple fruit cake that needs no rubbing in or creaming. A great cut-and-come-again cake that keeps well in the baking tin if covered with foil.

    List of Ingredients




    * 14oz (400g) mixed dried fruit
    * 6oz (150g) glace cherries (quartered)
    * 4oz (100g) dates, chopped
    * 4oz (100g) butter
    * 6oz (150g) dark brown soft sugar
    * half a tsp. of bicarbonate of soda
    * 1 tsp. mixed spice
    * half a pint (285ml milk)
    * 12oz (350g) self raising flour
    * pinch of salt
    * 2 eggs, well beaten
    * tbsp. apricot jam
    * 8oz (225g) ready to roll white icing
    * 9oz (250g) white marzipan
    * a little icing sugar (sifted)
    * 2-3 drops each of pink and green food colorings

    Recipe



    1. Place the fruits, spice, sugar, milk and bicarbonate of soda into a large pan

    2. Bring to the boil then simmer for 5 minutes

    3. Allow to cool to blood-heat

    4. Sift the flower and salt and stir into mixture with the eggs

    5. Turn into a greased double-lined 8in (20cm) cake tin

    6. Smooth the surface and hollow out center slightly

    7. Heat oven to 325F, and bake cake in the center for 45 minutes then at 300Ffor about a further 50 minutes

    8. To see if the cake is cooked a skewer pushed into the middle should come out clean

    9. Cool the cake in its tin then transfer to a wire rack and remove greaseproof paper

    10. Spread top of cake with jam

    11. Using a little icing sifted icing sugar , lightly knead the icing, then roll out to fit just inside cake top

    12. Trim round quarter inch (5mm) from the edge to allow for pink marzipan

    13. Cut marzipan into three pieces. Colour first piece pink and knead thoroughly

    14. Measure circumference of cake with string then roll pink marzipan by hand to the same length

    15. Lift on to cake, pressing neatly to the white icing edge then trim ends and join

    16. Colour second piece green, roll out to the same length. Roll out third piece likewise and twist them together

    17. Lay twist around cake, just inside pink roll then trim ends and join

    18. Tie a ribbon or fix a cake band around cake

 

 

 

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