Apricot Brandy Fruit Cake Recipe

Apricot brandy white fruitcake recipe.

Apricot brandy fruit cake recipe.

Beat on medium speed for 10 minutes. 1 of 3 apricot fruitcake. Use real butter and add a little coconut flavouring. Baking soda 1 c.

Marinate overnight in about 4 jiggers of apricot brandy. Gradually fold into the fruit mixture until evenly coated. You can do this days or weeks in advance if you want. I soak the fruit in a shallow airtight glass or plastic container.

Stirring them several times during the day. Marvellous would highly recommend. Sugar 4 eggs 2 c. Grease bottom and sides of 12 cup fluted tube cake pan or 10 inch angel food tube cake pan with shortening.

After 24 hours the fruit should have soaked up practically all of the rum. Absolutely the best fruit cake i have ever made. 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. The holiday season presents a prickly moral dilemma for my mother.

Her signature dessert is a meticulously faithful execution of great aunt margaret s christmas fruitcake recipe which must be soaked in peach brandy. Fold into fruit mixture. Meanwhile place ripe and dry apricots in a clean bottle or jar ball style. Cover with foil during the last 30 minutes.

But mama s a southern baptist so drinkin s a sin. 2 in large bowl beat all ingredients except powdered sugar with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds scraping bowl constantly. Mix 1 cup flour to the above and stir well. This recipe starts 24 hours in advance with the soaking of the fruit in the brandy.

I honed and perfected my own recipe for apricot brandy white fruitcake posted at the bottom of this page by baking oodles and oodles of test cakes. Pour into two greased and waxed paper lined 9x5 in. Keep in tightly covered container. Stir then nuke again for 30 seconds or until syrup mixture boils.

Pour batter over pecans in prepared bundt pan. The texture and mointness is awesome. My partner was one of my test cake tasters and i have more than a sneaking suspicion that he might have been guilty of finding minor things to improve.