Recipe of Perfect Light Fruit Cake

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, light fruit cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Light Fruit Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Light Fruit Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook light fruit cake using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Light Fruit Cake:

1. Make ready candied mixed peel
2. Make ready candied red or green cherries (cut into quarters)
3. Take dark raisins
4. Prepare Grand Marnier, rum, brandy, or sherry (optional)
5. Prepare unsalted butter, room temperature
6. Prepare granulated white sugar
7. Get large eggs, room temperature
8. Make ready pure vanilla extract
9. Get pure almond extract
10. Get all-purpose flour
11. Prepare ground almonds (almond meal/flour)
12. Get baking powder
13. Get salt
14. Take Zest of one small lemon (outer skin)
15. Prepare milk (whole or reduced fat)
16. Prepare Some flaked almonds for decoration

Steps to make Light Fruit Cake:

1. In a large bowl, combine candied mixed peel, cherries, and dark raisins. Mix well. Stir in the brandy to coat the fruit. Cover tightly with plastic wrap. Let stand at room temperature at least 1 day(up to 2 days) to macerate the fruit, stirring occasionally.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C), with the oven rack in the center of the oven. Butter, or spray with a nonstick vegetable spray, a 9 x 5 x 3 inch (23 x 13 x 8 cm) loaf pan.
3. In a separate bowl, whisk dried ingredients together the flour, baking powder, salt, and lemon zest.
4. In a large bowl of stand mixer and using the paddle attachment, beat the butter until creamy. Gradually add the sugar and beat until mixture is light and creamy. Beat in the egg one at a time, beating well after each addition and scraping the sides of the bowl with a spatula to ensure ingredients are all incorporated. Beat 1 additional minute.
5. Beat in the extracts. Add the candied and dried fruits, along with any juices, and beat until incorporated. Beat in half the flour mixture just until incorporated. Add almond flour, then beat in the milk and then the remaining flour mixture. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and, if desired, decorate the top of the cake with flaked almonds.
6. Bake for about 60 - 70 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cover with a piece of aluminum foil if you find the cake is browning too much! Remove the cake from the oven. - Let it cool down in the baking tin. Cut into slices and serve.

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