Apricot Brandy Fruit Cake Recipe

Fold into fruit mixture.

Apricot brandy fruit cake recipe.

Marinate overnight in about 4 jiggers of apricot brandy. Gradually fold into the fruit mixture until evenly coated. Combine fruit and nuts. Marvellous would highly recommend.

The texture and mointness is awesome. Use real butter and add a little coconut flavouring. This recipe can easily be made non alcoholic by using the suggested substitution of grape juice or apple juice to soak the fruit. Sugar 4 eggs 2 c.

Cover the bowl and let it sit overnight. This cake was delicious. Method soak the chopped apricots and dried fruit except the cherries in the brandy in a bowl overnight leave out in the kitchen and by the morning the fruit will have absorbed the brandy. Now wrap each cake with 2 layers of heavy duty aluminum foil.

In another bowl cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. The dried tart cherries made the recipe. The cake would not be soaked in anything after baking. Pour into two greased and waxed paper lined 9x5 in.

Baking soda 1 c. I was not sure i loved the pistachios but the color was nice and other people said they liked the flavor. Without these it would ve just been another fruitcake. Add the 2 3 cup of brandy and toss to coat the fruit and nuts with the liquor.

1 of 3 apricot fruitcake. Preheat oven to 300. Brush the warm cake with rum or brandy. Or simple syrup or flavored simple syrup vanilla rum flavored etc.

Instructions combine all the nuts and dried fruits with the lemon zest and juice. Mix 1 cup flour to the above and stir well. Beat in eggs and vanilla. With a shallow pan of water in the bottom of the oven bake at 275 for 2 1 2 hours or until cake tests done.

Absolutely the best fruit cake i have ever made. However the only fruit i used was apricots and dried tart cherries. Keep in tightly covered container. Baste the tops of each cake with apricot brandy or if desired with 151 overproof rum.

Wrap each cake in about 4 thicknesses of cheese cloth.