Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, chocolate fruit cake. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chocolate Fruit Cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Chocolate Fruit Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
Nigella's easy chocolate fruit cake is dark, moist and delicious - loaded with coffee and orange flavours. Perfect for Christmas or anytime of the year. Check out this stunning chocolate cake with a creamy passion fruit curd.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chocolate fruit cake using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Fruit Cake:
- Make ready 350 grams Dried Prunes (chopped)
- Take 250 grams Raisins
- Take 125 grams Currants
- Prepare 175 grams Butter
- Take 175 grams Molasses Sugar
- Get 175 ml Honey
- Make ready 125 ml Coffee Liqueur
- Take 2 Oranges (Zested & Juiced)
- Prepare 1 tsp Mixed Spice
- Make ready 2 tbsp Cocoa
- Take 3 Eggs (Beaten)
- Get 150 grams Flour
- Prepare 75 grams Almonds (Ground)
- Take 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
A sinfully rich Chocolate Fruit cake with mixed fruits that have been steeped in rum for over a year, cocoa powder and mixed spice. I adapted David Lebovitz's Chocolate cherry cake recipe. This chocolate fruit cake is a little out of my comfort zone - but I just had to give it a try. I was watching Nigella's Christmas special last holiday season, and saw her make a fantastic chocolate fruit cake.
Instructions to make Chocolate Fruit Cake:
- Prehead oven to 150°C - Line cake tin with baking parchment strips
- Place fruit, butter, sugar, honey, coffee liqueuer, orange zest & juice, mixed spice and cocoa into a large wide saucepan. Heat until reaching a gentle boil, stirring the mixture as the butter melts. Allow to simmer for 10 mins. Leave to cool for 30 mins.
- Add eggs, flour, ground almonds, baking powder & baking soda. Mix well with spatula until ingredients have combined.
- Mix in coffee liqueur
- Carefully pour into tin. - Do not overfill - rises quite a bit.Bake for 105 to 120 minutes or until the top of the cake is firm & has a shiny, sticky look. - Inserting a sharp knife into the cake, should reveal a slightly undercooked middle!
The presentation of this Chocolate Fruit Cake is so lovely, you may not want to cut into it! But, please do (after everyone has oohed and ahhed over it, of course). Home made delicious cake with fresh fruits & chocolate. Brownies-cheesecake tower with raspberries on white plate, wooden backdrop. The Chocolate Fruit Cake recipe out of our category Chocolate Cake!
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