Fruit cakes that have been matured and fed with alcohol can be stored for a year or more. When making dense fruit cakes such as a Christmas cake, the batter needs to be heavy enough for the dried ...
Preheat the oven to 300°F. Grease a round 9- or 10-inch cake pan, and line bottom and sides with several layers of waxed paper. 2. In a large bowl, with an electric mixer on high, beat the butter and ...
Add the dried fruit and orange zest. Bring to the boil, then remove from the heat. Leave to cool a little, then beat in the eggs and fold in the dry ingredients. Scrape into the prepared cake tin ...
Olive Oil gives not only gives this fruit cake an incredible tenderness and moistness (no more dry horrid fruit cake!) but it also lends a gorgeous fruity herbaceous flavour that lifts a “plain ...