Light Fruit Cake Recipe Demonstration - Joyofbaking.com how to make
Light Fruit Cake Recipe Demonstration - Joyofbaking.com
beans damn hi I'm Stephanie horse cave duringbaking dot com today we're going to make a lightfruitcake by light I mean light in the color and light inthe mouth a fruit contains but what's great about this cake is wecan eat it the same day it's made it's not like some fruit cakes were youhave to feed them with alcohol for several weeksbut if you still want that goes a flavorwhat we can do is soak the fruit a day or two before wemake the cake in some alcohol and that's what I'vedone here so just take a bowl and in the ball port three-quarters of acop that's a grams up candied mixed peel along with thehalf a cop a fit I'm grams up either way at for green charisse whichever one youwant and I cut mine in corners or you could just cut them in half tojust depends how large you want your carry pieces to be and then you'll also need a third of acop that's grams about our raisins now you can vary the proportions up the streets just sent your own taste and then what you do is justputting bolstered and then you want to add about 3tablespoons alcohol I use job grandma really a you could use rum or brandy or shari and then just stir that and then just cover with the peace aplastic wrap and let it sit at room temperature forat least a day actually I let this sit two days andwhen you think a bit everyone so I'll just give it a quickstir so once that's done then we can now I'm start the batter sopreheat your oven to degrees Fahrenheit which is a degree Celsius and we're making this for cake in a loafpan sold get your loaf pan and either youcan lightly butter or oil lip or I'm just going to give it a quick spray funny non-stick fun so this is basically a butter cake batter so ifyou have a stand mixer like I have here you sure paddle attachment or you could just or use a hand mixerfirst thing you need is a half a cop grams a Potter I like to see on salt I like theflavor better but you could use assaulted and have it at room temperature I'm justgoing to beat this just until it nice and creamy smoother up K and then to that add a half a couplehundred grams are granulated white sugar and scrape downthe sides in the bottom of the bowl as much as you need to along the way song going to beat this for couple minutes I want to get somecare into that the one due to a flight flattened two to three minutes okay so this is what we're lookingforward just trying to get some air mix ohs together and get a little air inthere spanked and I'm next we're going to add 3 large eggs oneat a time be one and the next one the next oneheavy rain said our room temperature now you will noticeafter you have probably couple the aches therewill be the back it will curdle so don't worryabout that that's fairly normal when we add the dry ingredients it's just gonnasmile is greater back quick scrape sure you do the bottom of theball and her last day go along with half a teaspoon of pure vanilla extracttry to use appear better flavor than the artificial and weare going to it I'm add some ground almonds to thisbatter so what I'm doing is adding just a quarter for teaspoon apure almond extract kinda bring out that almond flavor speak that can't so Richard can see the batter is Kurt alt so now for I'm trying green it's in a separatebowl I have cups
grams up all-purpose safflower youknow those plain flour to that I'm going to add half a cop 50grams up ground almonds you can grind you know process whole blanched almondsin your food processor until finely ground or you can just buy ground almondscalled almond meal or almond flour want grocery stores now sell ground almonds or you can find like specialty food stores health foodstores are course online and then at also we're going to add 1teaspoon of baking powder and a quarter for teaspoon salt and then the Sastre one small lemon that's justthe older yellow skin don't great the white underneath becausethat's kinda better try to use organic you can and you could also use orange zest thatwould be also very nice here or you could even leave it out if youdon't want that flavor things just lemon for even an orangejust kinda perks up all the flavors him and just using a wire whisk Swiss get alltogether you wanna make sure that that baking powder is all mixed andto the flower K saw what we'll do is add just maybe half of the flour along with free and if there's any juice on thebottom just before that raid and always senator flavor like I said if you don't want to alcoholtaste just don't bother marinating her massreading your go fruit in the alcohol so justlow-speed just make said a.m. then I'm going to add a quarter cup 60no leaders up milk you can use some whole milk or I'm using a like two percent reduced fatjust speak that in slowly some scraped and down this is a really easy fruitcake to make them Christopher flower more done K its yet stick I am Qwikster to get all the flour next to him according to your loaf pan not the back of a spoon armed issues inan offset spatula just smooth it out here hey if you'd like you can garnish thetop with some shaped slice almonds scared so now we're gonna bake this sixty sixty to seventy minutes you will findher rises not too much but it will turn nicegolden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center will come out clean nowif you find it browning too much you could just put a piece ofaluminum for over-the-top up and to stopped the Browning sup case or fruitcake it's done you can see it's beautiful golden browncolor and toothpick inserted into the center will come out clean so now just let it cool on a wire rackin the pan for about minutes and they will comeback and take it over the past so to remove the fruit cake from the pan just use a night for I'm using a flapspatula and just ramble on sign make sure it'snot sticking and just and still hot so be careful so I'm just going to letthis cool just you know to minutes and thenwe'll cut a slice so now to culture for cake just a sharpknife Scott his the first day you will notice that the got crushed isquite crisp but that will soften when you cover and store it you can seeJustin beautiful looking read all the candiedfruit and the reasons and then artist taste oh that's so nice I'm a big fan of candied fruit so I lovehow much the bread is full about and it's reallymore East and almond flavored batter really is anice so I'm you can cover and store this for several days and that will kindaStephen soften the bread even more in the flavors were kinda mingled I'm but you can also freeze it for a couplemonths it's excellent so until next time i'm stephanie your skate during baking doc beans dunes damn