Spoon the glazed fruits and nuts over the top of the cake to decorate.
Glazed fruit xmas cake.
Instructions make fruit cake.
Remove from heat and strain through a sieve to remove any apricot pieces.
If the top is uneven trim with a sharp knife to make a flat surface.
When cool pour over the fruits and nuts and mix to glaze.
Pour the fruit preserves or jam into a small saucepan.
Scroll down for my naked christmas cake with glazed nuts and cherries.
Finally brush the beautifully arranged nuts and lots more glaze then store the cake in a tin or polythene box until it s needed.
And here s how the making part goes down.
Next fold in the flour chopped almonds cinnamon and then fruit with any juices left in the bowl and treacle.
How to make christmas cake.
Basic clear glaze can be varied for different fruit ingredients 240 ml water apple pear or green grape juice might work too 10ml lemon juice 2 tbsp potato or tapioca starch not corn starch it will make the glaze milky 1 2 tbsp sugar.
Don t worry about the keeping quality of this glaze we have stored glazed cakes for three months and they were still in beautiful condition.
I take a speedy approach.
Stand to allow the topping to.
So i raided their baking section to come up with the ingredients for my glazed fruit and nut topping.
Place the cake on a board or flat surface.
Fruitcake bakers use it a lot brushing it onto a cake just out of the oven and usually arranging fruit and or nuts on top and then sealing them on with more glaze or under the marzipan as i use to.
Add 1 1 2 teaspoons of water for every 1 4 of jam or preserved used.
The key step that makes this so much faster to make than other fruit cakes is the fruit soaking step most recipes call for dried fruit to be soaked overnight.
30g dried apricots finely chopped.
Christmas cake with glazed fruit nuts.
When it comes to serving time transfer it to a plate or clean cake card and wrap a ribbon around the side.
Countdown has a fantastic range of nuts and dried fruit in their baking section and leading up to christmas so many of them are on price lockdown or special.
While this cake is excellent sliced and eaten just as it is it is great as a dessert.
Apricot glaze is also used in savoury cooking.
Wrap the cake in two pieces of clingfilm to stop the outside edge of the cake from drying out and store in a tin or tub large enough to accommodate it.
Line a cake tin roughly 9 x 3 pour the batter into the lined tin and bake for 6hrs and 20 mins on gas mark 1.
Just microwave the dried fruit with juice and or brandy then stand for 1 hour to soak up the liquid.
Often liqueur like brandy or grand marnier is added to glaze especially christmas cakes.
Include about 1 4 cup of preserves or jam for every loaf sized fruitcake.
Glazed fruit christmas cake.
Ruth clemens baker extraordinaire.
Dried fruit mixture for soaking in brandy.
