Chocolate Fruit Cake

Name: Chocolate Fruit Cake
Prep time: 3 h 30 min
Cook time: 3 h 30 min
Total time: 3 h 30 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons baking powder; 1 teaspoons baking soda; 25 grams 1-ounce dark chocolate-covered coffee beans; 2 Tbsps good quality cocoa; 125 milliliters 1/2 fluid ounces coffee liqueur; 125 grams 1/2 ounces currants; 10 About edible gold stars; 10 servings Edible glitter; 3 free-range eggs, beaten; 75 grams 1/2 ounces ground almonds; 175 milliliters 1/4 fluid ounces honey; 1 teaspoon mixed spice; 2 oranges, zested and juiced; 150 grams 1/4 ounces plain flour; 350 grams 12 1/4 ounces dried soft prunes, chopped; 250 grams 3/4 ounces raisins; 175 grams 1/4 ounces unsalted butter, softened; 1 ball Gold mini

Chocolate Fruit Cake requires roughly 3 hours and 30 minutes from start to finish. This recipe makes 10 servings with 616 calories, 7g of protein, and 21g of fat each. This recipe covers 12% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have raisins, coffee liqueur, edible glitter, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It can be enjoyed any time, but it is especially good for Christmas.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).

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Oven

Line the sides and bottom of an 8 by 3 1/2-inch deep, round loose-bottomed cake tin with a layer of reusable silicon baking parchment. When lining the tin with the parchment, cut the material into strips that are twice as high as the tin itself (it is easier to use two shorter strips of parchment, than one long strip); the height of the strips protects the cake from catching on the outside of the cake tin.

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Cake Form

Place the fruit, butter, sugar, honey, coffee liqueur, orange zest and juice, mixed spice and cocoa into a large wide saucepan.

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Coffee Liqueur

Mixed Spice

Orange Zest

Butter

Cocoa Powder

Fruit

Honey

Juice

Sugar

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Sauce Pan

Heat the mixture until it reaches a gentle boil, stirring the mixture as the butter melts.

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Butter

Let the mixture simmer for 10 minutes.

Remove the saucepan from the heat and leave to stand for 30 minutes.

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Sauce Pan

After 30 minutes, the mixture will have cooled a little.

Add the eggs, flour, ground almonds, baking powder and baking soda, and mix well with a wooden spoon or spatula until the ingredients have combined.

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Almond Meal

Baking Soda

All Purpose Flour

Egg

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Wooden Spoon

Spatula

Carefully pour the fruitcake mixture into the lined cake tin.

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Cake Form

Transfer the cake tin to the oven and bake for 1 3/4 to 2 hours, or until the top of the cake is firm but will has a shiny and sticky look. At this point, if you insert a sharp knife into the middle of the cake, the cake should still be a little uncooked in the middle.

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Oven

Cake Form

Knife

Place the cake on a cooling rack. Once the cake has cooled, remove it from the tin.

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Wire Rack

To decorate, place the chocolate-covered coffee beans in the centre of the cake and arrange the gold stars around the perimeter of the top of the cake. Then sprinkle some gold mini-balls over the whole cake and sprinkle the top with edible glitter.

Ingredients you will need

Coffee Beans