Fruit Cake

Fresh Fruit Cake Ideas
Fruit Cake

Fresh Fruit Cake Ideas

- by Lucas Miller

There are so many fresh fruit cake ideas available to you. From Bright & Citrusy to Cinnamon & Banana, watermelon to Rum Punch Cake, there is a fresh fruit cake recipe to suit any taste.

Here are some of our favorites:

Bright & Citrusy

If you love bright and citrusy flavors, try one of these bright and citrusy fresh fruit cake ideas. You don’t even need to add food coloring to this loaf-like cake. Simply skip the food coloring and add a few teaspoons of poppy seeds to the batter. Once the batter is ready, top it with slices of fresh fruit, lemon zest, cinnamon, and sliced bananas. Optionally, you can sprinkle the top with chopped walnuts or crushed pecans. If you’re not into baking a whole cake, you can make these recipes a day or two ahead of time. Store them in an airtight cake container in the fridge. …

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How to Store Fruit Cake
Fruit Cake

How to Store Fruit Cake

- by Lucas Miller

You can store home made fruit cake for years although the type you buy is not usually stored for that long, because, after all it has a sell-by date, and has additives and preservatives in it. You can, however, prolong the life of a fruit cake from a store, by simply freezing it after wrapping it in tin foil very securely.

The best sorts of fruit cake to store are the ones you make yourself that are laced with liquor, brandy, dark rum, whiskey, wine and port make good choices. When you make a fruit cake it takes at least a month to mature, or mellow, so you shouldn’t freeze one until it has been allowed to mellow for a few months.

When you make a fruit cake, you should make it three or four months before you want to eat it as this gives it time to reach its …

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Enjoying a Fruit Cake the Whole Year Round
Fruit Cake

Enjoying a Fruit Cake the Whole Year Round

- by Lucas Miller

Most people would think that a fruit cake is only available during the Christmas season. However, anyone can enjoy a slice of this unique cake any time of the year, so if you can’t wait for the holidays to experience the richness of a fruit cake then you’ll be glad that you can get it anytime you wish.

A fruit cake is normally made with dried fruits and nuts that are soaked in either brandy or rum for a couple of days before adding them to the cake mixture. As you can see, the process of making a fruit cake is longer and more tedious than making other cakes, and if you don’t have the patience then perhaps you should stick to the ready-made cakes that can be purchased in pastry and cake shops. For other people though, nothing beats the taste of a tasty, home-made fruit cake.

Enjoying a Fruit Cake the Whole Year Round

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An Overview of Fruit Cake
Fruit Cake

An Overview of Fruit Cake

- by Lucas Miller

Whether you love it or hate it, fruit cake is a tradition everywhere. There are several different versions of the confection, but they are all still similar.

Fruit cake can be traced back as early as ancient Rome where it was made with barley, pine nuts, pomegranate seeds, and raisins. Through the Middle Ages is when the name fruit cake was coined and this is when the use of fruits that had been preserved started. This was the time when these pastries spread rapidly and many different variations of the recipe started coming about.

An Overview of Fruit Cake

This treat is now made in multiple countries from the Bahamas where they soak absolutely everything in rum to Canada where it is almost only a Christmas time treat. In Germany, it is also a Christmas time confection. Italy calls their Panforte and it has a rather strong flavor to it. In Romania, they serve this …

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Fruit Cake

Christmas Fruitcake Recipe

- by Lucas Miller

Fruit CakeThe history of the fruitcake dates back to medieval times when sweet breads have been first created. Christmas is a extremely particular and busy time for absolutely everyone but specially for these of us who take on the principal part of cook in the home, all of a sudden I discover myself considering about making the Christmas Cake once once more! This recipe uses yellow cake mix with cherry pie filling and crushed pineapple. While comparable in its ingredients to the classic Christmas fruitcake, the Twelfth Night cake originated before Christian occasions and was created from ancient Arab recipes.

In addition to cake batter, the monks mix in raisins, pineapple, nuts, cherries, and pieces of lemon and orange, as nicely as nutmeg, vanilla, cumin and other spices. Made in Poplarville, Mississippi, Baker Maid fruitcake comes in a handy one particular-pound size ($12.99), half a cake carved into eight plastic-wrapped slices. …

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