A crack team of highly skilled food content producers, the GH Kitchen Team are Good Housekeeping's resident recipe developers and all. That's one reason why fruitcake makes such a good DIY Christmas food gift. To make a fruitcake your family will actually love, use good quality ingredients like golden raisins, dried figs, and crunchy pecans.
The list ahead also includes some recipes that add dark chocolate chunks to the batter or a cream cheese frosting on top. This chewy, sweet and, most importantly, simple fruit cake recipe will bring joy to any holiday gathering. It's filled with tasty additions like three types of candied fruit and a heaping mound of crunchy walnuts for a fun.
Old-fashioned contains 9 different fruits, spices, and nuts, plus brandy for a moist and delicious cake. Plan to soak the fruits in brandy overnight or all day. Recipe reprinted with permission from All New Good Housekeeping Cookbook (Hearst).
This moist, rich fruitcake with nuts, dried fruit, and the perfect blend of warm spices makes a classic holiday cake that keeps beautifully. The ridicule that most fruitcakes face has everything to do with bad recipes, which skimp on fruit and load on the batter In a good fruitcake the batter should barely be perceptible, acting merely as adhesive to bind the fruit and nuts Broken down into its parts, a good fruitcake contains ingredients that most people love: plump dates, candied cherries, almond extract, pecans, walnuts and sugar. Dark fruitcake full of pecans, candied cherries, candied pineapple, and dates definitely says Christmas! Old Southern recipe that's super easy and totally yummy! Is it candy or is it cake?
Turn a plain fruit cake into a real show. 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 is my grandmother's recipe for a moist, incredibly flavorful fruit cake.
The cake is well spiced and packed with dried fruit and nuts!