This Easy Fruit Cake Recipe is a perfectly spiced moist cake with bits of candied fruit and nuts throughout. Better than the tinned cakes of the past! A traditional fruitcake recipe with warming spices, a melt-in-your-mouth crumb and plenty of fruit and nut mix-ins, topped with a luscious cream cheese frosting.
Fruit cake, a beloved holiday classic, deserves an icing that complements its rich flavors and moist texture. Whether you're a seasoned baker or a novice looking to impress your guests, this comprehensive guide will provide you with everything you need to know about icing for fruit cake. This moist, dark cake is loaded with yummy-tasting dried fruits, not the icky, bitter candied peel and citron you remember from visiting your grandma at Christmas.
This traditional fruitcake recipe will be the best you've ever tasted! It's moist and flavorful, packed with brandy soaked dried fruits, nuts, and holiday spices. Skip the alcohol if you like, this loaf cake will still be amazing. Christmas cake is a traditional British fruit cake covered with marzipan and decorated in royal icing.
This recipe can be made in advance. In bowl, beat egg white until frothy. Using wooden spoon, beat in half of the icing sugar until just incorporated.
Stir in lemon juice and corn syrup. Gradually stir in remaining icing sugar until smooth, very white and soft peaks form. Cover with damp cloth and let stand for 1 hour (to allow most.
Note: frosting will be thin, so the liquid can be absorbed by the cake; only the coconut and a thin glaze will be left on top of the cake; the rest will soak into the cake--This is the only frosting you will want to use over Fruit Cocktail Cake (Recipe #7061)! This delicious Berry Buttercream Frosting is homemade with fresh strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries. This tall, rich Christmas Cake is made with rum-soaked fruits, warm spices, nuts, and dark caramel, then covered with marzipan and rustic royal icing.
A classic holiday centerpiece that looks stunning and tastes even better with time.