Glen Glen Glen Glen Glen Glen has this been soaking
long enough No so this is Christmas cake or fruitcake recipe
depending on your point of view looks good it does I'm are you sure it's a you
sure you've soaked it long I haven't so a lot of people have a lot of theories
about how to make fruitcake some start in January for the following Christmas
and some people really want it to sit for a long time I as soon as it comes
out of the oven I know you really need it
ready to go I feel like it could do with a little more a little more brandy
mm-hmm sure this is attrition for us who's also a tradition in my family we
eat each of my aunts and uncles make different kinds and then switch and
share I really like this dark one so I make this at the end of October
beginning of November and it generally doesn't make it never makes it to
Christmas Day so here's how I made it you start out by
mixing up the dried fruit and that's candy pineapple
candied cherries raisins currants
candied peel and then you pour in some brandy
and you give that a stir some people let that sit for weeks or months usually I
let it sit for a couple of days or sometimes I'll do this on a Sunday and
then the following Saturday I'll move on to making the cake and the cake is
pretty straightforward in a big bowl I mix together flour
baking powder baking soda salt allspice cloves cinnamon and nutmeg and then in
another Bowl I cream together butter and brown sugar
then I mixed in molasses and some of our homemade strawberry jam and then I
whipped in five eggs
and then I stirred in the flour mixture
once the flour mixture was stirred in I poured in the fruit that had been
soaking in the brandy
and then some chopped walnuts you could use pecans or pecans if you wanted to
once that was all mixed together put that into a baking pan lined with
parchment paper it's also greased and I stuck that in the oven
once it comes out of the oven you let it cool down until it's fully cooled take a
piece of cheesecloth and you soak that in the brandy then you wrap the cake in
the cheesecloth and then you wrap it in plastic wrap and you stick that in the
fridge for as long as you can and that's pretty much it so a couple of times
during this period we'll add a little bit extra brandy as we wrap it wrap it
and you rewrap it and you keep it in the fridge this will you know keep in the
fridge of the freezer for oh yes it is one of the things about it
yeah it'll it'll keep for a very long time if you can keep from eating it and
a lot of people have pretty harsh opinions about ok it's very rich and
where you can eat many many pieces I can eat a small piece and then I've done
yeah I think part of it is that people just take a big piece like it's cake
cake it's and it's not overwhelming it's really there it's really dense and rich
and me wrong you could also use rum you don't need to use brandy a dark rum
works really well at all points and you can mix up any fruit that you
want as always making this always thick and you know if I like the mango
with dried mango in it well I know my mom puts a coconut in hers which you're
not that for yeah that's not for me but if that's what you like in it I mean
it's very versatile you can make a lot of changes to this so tell us what you
think about fruitcake you opened a big door there please do cuz I I want to
know why people don't like it what was your bad experience with it that you
don't like fruitcake thanks for stopping by give this a try you've still got time
to make it before Christmas put the brandy way