LIGHT CHRISTMAS CAKES DONE & READY FOR PACKAGING
FRUIT AND NUTS SOAKING IN BRANDY!
This year was my first attempt at making a traditional Christmas Fruit Cake. I knew that I wanted a light one and I knew it would need lots of fruit and nuts. I spent days looking at lots of recipes from many different sources. I finally found one I really liked. It was more of an outline than defined recipe which gave me the choice of what I wanted to put in it.
I used mostly the innards of a DUNDEE cake for the fruit and then for nuts I used Pecans and slivered Almonds. I soaked the fruit in Orange flavored Brandy for 2 days (so busy could not get back to it the next day). I bought small muffin tins from the Dollar store. They are about the size of a pound of butter and came in a batch of 5 for $1. I bought 2 sets and used 8 of them.
I did cook the cakes for about 1 & 1/2 hours.
Then I brushed straight brandy on top when done.
They have been sitting for a couple of days. I will wrap them tonight in plastic wrap and then put them in special Christmas bags with name tags as part of the formal table setting for Christmas dinner.
I enclose the link to the Recipe. Just Click on either Picture above....
Enjoy.
-The Guest House
I used mostly the innards of a DUNDEE cake for the fruit and then for nuts I used Pecans and slivered Almonds. I soaked the fruit in Orange flavored Brandy for 2 days (so busy could not get back to it the next day). I bought small muffin tins from the Dollar store. They are about the size of a pound of butter and came in a batch of 5 for $1. I bought 2 sets and used 8 of them.
I did cook the cakes for about 1 & 1/2 hours.
Then I brushed straight brandy on top when done.
They have been sitting for a couple of days. I will wrap them tonight in plastic wrap and then put them in special Christmas bags with name tags as part of the formal table setting for Christmas dinner.
I enclose the link to the Recipe. Just Click on either Picture above....
Enjoy.
-The Guest House
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