This Holiday Fruit Cake is everything that the holidays promise: soft cake texture loaded with dry fruits in every bite, spiced ginger flavor, and a touch of orange. This Fruit Cake recipe is simple to make and comes together in less than 30 minutes. You’ll be left with all the time you need to enjoy the perfect holiday cake for any family celebration.

Why You Should Make Best Holiday Fruit Cake

This Holiday Fruit Cake is a snap to make, because this is a simple cake recipe that doesn’t taste simple. The Fruit Cake sparks even more holiday cheer, because it is spiced with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, a lot of dry fruits and orange juice and zest are like a match made in holiday heaven!

How To Cook Best Holiday Fruit Cake

Start with preparing all ingredients.

• Take a saucepan and place there sugar, orange juice, zest, butter, alcohol, cacao powder, dry fruits and all spices. Bring to the low hit and cook for 10 min and stir from time to time. Leave a side for cool down.

• Transfer fruit mass to the big bowl and add eggs, flour, baking powder then mix it well.

• Preheat the oven to 320F, prepare a loaf pan and line with parchment paper. Transfer fruit dough to the loaf pan. Bake in the oven for 1 hour until a toothpick in the center comes out clean.

• Leave the fruit cake in a loaf pan to cool down.

• You can decorate fruit cake as you wish.

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Tips

• These fruit cakes can be stored in the refrigerator for 6 to 8 weeks (or longer!).

• Since this fruit cake only improves in flavor as it sits, the sooner the better! I recommend wrapping it with cheesecloth (soaked in alcohol) for one to two weeks, at minimum, for best flavor before serving or gifting.

Best Holiday Fruit Cake

Recipe by Elena VoynovaCourse: Dessert, Breakfast, SnacksCuisine: RussianDifficulty: Easy

Servings

6-8

servings

Prep time

30

minutes

Cooking time

1

hour 

Total time

1

hour 

30

minutes

Ingredients

• 350 g dried fruits

• 90 g butter

• 100 g brown sugar

• 1 orange (zest and juice 70 ml)

• 1 tsp cocoa powder (optional)

• 1 tsp ginger

• 1/2 tsp cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamon.

• 50 ml alcohol

• 2 eggs

• 80 g all-purpose flour

• 50 g almond flour

• 1/2 tsp of baking powder

Directions

• Take a saucepan and place there sugar, orange juice, zest, butter, alcohol, cacao powder, dry fruits and all spices. Bring to the low hit and cook for 10 min and stir from time to time. Leave a side for cool down.
• Transfer fruit mass to the big bowl and add eggs, flour, baking powder then mix it well.
• Preheat the oven to 320F, prepare a loaf pan and line with parchment paper. Transfer fruit dough to the loaf pan. Bake in the oven for 1 hour until a toothpick in the center comes out clean.
• Leave the fruit cake in a loaf pan to cool down.
• You can decorate fruit cake as you wish.
• Enjoy!