Christmas baking: Fruitcake Recipes

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This is a cute and delicious Christmas classic.

Ingredients:

  • 3 cups (400 g) flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp powdered ginger
  • Pinch of salt
  • 3 tbsp apricot marmalade
  • 3 tbsp sunflower oil
  • 2 tbsp sour cream
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 cup (250 ml) milk
  • 2 tbsp rum
  • ½ cup (100 g) sugar
  • 3.3 oz (100 g) raisins
  • 3.3 oz (100 g) mixed dried fruit (i used currants and figs)
  • 3.3 oz (100 g) almonds, chopped
  • Zest of 1 lemon
  • Zest of ½ orange

Instructions:

  1. Whisk dry ingredients and combine with wet ingredients.
  2. Add currants, raisins, chopped almonds and chopped figs. Add orange and lemon zest.
  3. Preheat oven to 359 F (180 C).
  4. Bake in round cake pan covered with parchment paper or in bread loaf pan for 35 minutes (test with skewer).

Christmas baking: Fruitcake • Yield: 12 servings
Ingredients:

  • 3 cups (400 g) flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp powdered ginger
  • Pinch of salt
  • 3 tbsp apricot marmalade
  • 3 tbsp sunflower oil
  • 2 tbsp sour cream
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 cup (250 ml) milk
  • 2 tbsp rum
  • ½ cup (100 g) sugar
  • 3.3 oz (100 g) raisins
  • 3.3 oz (100 g) mixed dried fruit (i used currants and figs)
  • 3.3 oz (100 g) almonds, chopped
  • Zest of 1 lemon
  • Zest of ½ orange

Christmas baking: Fruitcake Nutrition Facts:
• Diet:
• Calories: 190.40
• Fat: 105.96
• Carbs: 214.83
• Protein: 77.55
• Cholesterol: 12.75
• Calcium: 146.03
• Sodium: 96.58

* E.g. 137.29 = 137mg or 137g – 29%
Nutrition Facts labels are not always factual.

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