Recipe: Tasty Chocolate Christmas Fruit Cake

Chocolate Christmas Fruit Cake. Kostenlose Lieferung möglich Chocolate chocolate Heute bestellen, versandkostenfrei. This chocolate fruit cake is a fun twist on the classic Christmas dessert. It's packed with flavor from rich chocolate, cranberries, figs, and apricots.

Heat the mixture until it reaches a gentle boil, stirring the mixture. Mix the flour, almonds, cocoa and spice together. Stir the eggs into the slightly cooled chocolate mixture in the saucepan, followed by the flour mixture. You can have Chocolate Christmas Fruit Cake using 17 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chocolate Christmas Fruit Cake

1. Prepare 2 cups of chopped Dry Fruits of your choice (Dates, Prunes, Cranberries, Figs, Raisins, Sultanas, Apricots).
2. It's 1 cup of Dark Rum (Whisky, Sherry or Brandy will also do).
3. It's 250 grams of Black raisins.
4. It's 250 grams of Dried soft prunes.
5. You need 1/4 cup of Honey.
6. It's 2 of Oranges, zest and juice.
7. It's 1 teaspoon of Mixed spice- (cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg).
8. It's 2 tablespoons of Cocoa powder.
9. You need 3 tablespoons of Grape Juice.
10. Prepare 3/4 cup of Butter.
11. It's 3/4 cup of Dark brown sugar.
12. It's 3 medium of Eggs.
13. Prepare 1 1/4 cups of All purpose Flour.
14. Prepare 1/2 cup of Ground almonds (with or without skin)-.
15. It's 1/2 teaspoon of Baking powder.
16. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of Baking Soda.
17. It's pinch of Salt.

Cool in the tin, then decorate (see 'Goes well with', right, for decoration ideas). Nigella's easy chocolate fruit cake is dark, moist and delicious. Perfect as a chocolate Christmas cake or for anytime of year. Sieve flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon powder, clove powder and nutmeg powder.

Chocolate Christmas Fruit Cake instructions

1. In a clean, dry glass jar, add the chopped dry fruits and the rum and mix well together with a wooden spoon. Seal the jar and keep in a cool, dry place away from sunlight. Every 2-3 days, give the fruit a mix and add about ¼ cup more rum if it looks too dry. You can soak the dry fruits for 1 – 4 weeks before you bake the cake..
2. Reheat the oven to 150 degrees for 10 minutes. In a broad pan, add the raisins and chopped prunes. Add butter, mixed spice powder, dark brown sugar, honey, orange zest from 2 oranges and orange juice from 1 and 1/2 orange add remaining half at-last if needed..
3. Add cocoa powder, grape juice and bring the mixture to boil in low flame. It takes about 5-8 minutes to start the mixture to bubble. Once the bubbles start to appear on the edges, switch off the gas and allow the mixture to cool for about 30 minutes. Prepare the cake tin by lining bottom and the sides of the cake. To protect the top of the cake from burning keep the side little larger the tin..
4. In a blender jar, add the blanched or whole almonds and make a powder. In a separate bowl add the all purpose flour, ground almonds, baking powder, baking soda and salt together and mix with a whisk to combine well. After around 30 minutes, once the mixture has cooled a little, add the beaten eggs. Now add this flour almond mix into the fruit mixture and mix with a spatula until the ingredients have combined..
5. If you feel the batter is thick drizzle little orange juice now to loosen the batter. Carefully pour the fruit cake mixture into the lined 20 cm with minimum of 7-8 cm height cake tin. Cover the cake tin with another wax paper on top to prevent the sides from burning. Transfer the cake tin to the oven and bake for around 1 and 3/4 to 2 hours, or until the top of the cake is firm. If you insert a sharp knife into the middle of the cake the knife should come out clean..

Combine butter, sugar, chocolate and the water in medium saucepan; stir over heat until sugar dissolves. If you like chocolate, this fruitcake is for you! It's a delicious cake, very moist and packed with fruit and nuts. It isn't a large cake so may seem expensive, however, it is dense so a small slice is very satisfying. My cake had a couple of cherries that had sunk into the batter and weren't very visible, otherwise it arrived in good condition.