Fruit Cake Liquor Recipe

These wine poached apricots can be served over a slice of cake or even your favorite triple cream cheese.

Fruit cake liquor recipe.

Bring mixture to a boil stirring often then reduce heat and simmer for 5 to 10 minutes. Combine fruit and nuts. You can add 1 2 tablespoon of milk if the batter seems too dry. Wrap in sherry or triple sec soaked cheesecloth for at least a week for best flavor.

This fruit cake recipe yields 2 loaf cakes. Cover cut up fruit in blood orange liqueur and it ll absorb the liqueur leaving you with extra juicy fruit and a sweet alcoholic kick. If you like just a hint of rum or brandy flavor add 1 tablespoon of liquor to 3 4 cup vanilla syrup or simple syrup and brush this mixture on the cakes. Note that this recipe can also be made in two parchment paper lined 10 tube pans.

Beat in eggs and vanilla. Thank you for posting this fine old recipe. Unfortunately most honey cakes turn out to be dry brick like things inedible except with a hot beverage. Use about 2 cups chopped per cake mix.

It turns cynics into converts. Alcohol soaked fruit recipes to serve this summer. You can make this cake in a 9 x 2 inches round pan 9 x 2 1 2 inches springform pan or 9 x 5 x 3 inches loaf pan. Spiced fragrant honey cake is a tradition on rosh hashanah the jewish new year which generally falls in september.

In another bowl cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. The brandied fruit should be kept refrigerated and can be served with ice cream yogurt or pound cake. Most people agree it s about as good as a fruitcake can get people often liking this cake that didn t like fruitcakes. You can also use the brandied fruit in a cake mix or scratch cake.

Place fruit and liquid in a non reactive pot with the sugar butter apple juice and spices. A traditional moist fruit cake made with rum soaked dried fruit citrus zest and candied ginger. The best fruit cake recipe you ll ever make. This is basically the same recipe as a very old recipe my mother used.

If you prefer not to use alcohol in your desserts you can substitute it with fruit juices or sodas. Preheat oven to 300. Brush the warm cake with rum or brandy. Cakes will be moister and certainly tastier.