Christmas Fruitcake Recipes

Grandma's Christmas Fruitcake Recipes Make The Best Christmas Cakes

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Grandma McIlmoyle's Christmas Cake

2 lb raisins, 2 lb currents, 1/2 lb mixed peel, 1/2 lb almonds, 1-1/4 lb brown sugar (2-1/2 cups), 1 lb flour (4 cups), 10 eggs, 2 nutmegs, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 1 wineglass brandy (I used fruit juice instead). Directions for mixing: Cream the butter and sugar, then pour in dry ingredients. Break up the eggs and mix all together well. Bake 3-1/4 hours (or until done) in a very slow oven not more than 275°F.

Some prefer to steam until none sticks to a straw, then brown in oven (best way as it burns very quick).

Note: I had a reader inquire how to steam Grandma's fruitcake. I suspect the cake was steamed similar to how one would steam a Christmas pudding, but I have never tried steaming a cake, preferring the baking method. The best compromise would be to place a shallow pan of hot water on the bottom rack of the oven below the cake during baking. Remove the pan of water during the last hour to prevent the cake from becoming too moist.

Special Christmas Cake

1 lb dates, 1/2 lb nuts, 1 cup wine, 1 lb butter, 3 cups flour, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon cloves, 1/2 teaspoon allspice, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 teaspoon rose water, 1/4 cup molasses, 3 lb raisins, 1 lb peel (mixed), 1/2 cup black currant juice, 3/4 lb brown sugar, 7 eggs, 1 grated nutmeg, 1 teaspoon lemon, 1/2 teaspoon Ratiffa, 1/2 teaspoon soda.

Prepare fruit, pour wine and black currant juice over same and leave stand overnight. Cream butter, then add eggs and beat well; then add molasses and soda beaten until light, then add flour, sprinkle fruit with flour and add, bake in tins lined with heavy brown paper buttered. Do not open oven for three hours.

Inexpensive Christmas Cake Recipe

This is an inexpensive fruitcake recipe to make, yet the Christmas cake is delicious and rich tasting.

Two cups brown sugar, 1 package seeded raisins, 1 tablespoonful of shortening, 1/2 cup molasses, 1 teaspoon ground spices, 1 teaspoon salt. Boil all in a saucepan 5 or 6 minutes. When cool add 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in a little hot water, 1 lb chopped figs or dates, 3 full cups flour. Beat well and bake in a slow oven about 1-1/2 hours. It will keep moist, in a cool place, without icing.

Aunt Daisy's Christmas Fruitcake Recipe

2 cups seedless raisins, 2 cups currents, 1/2 pound dates, 2 oz (1/2 cup) lemon peel, 1/2 pound (1 cup) cut mixed fruits, 1/2 cup whole red cherries, 3/4 cup walnut pieces, 1 cup halved almonds.

Christmas Fruitcake Recipe With Brandy

3/4 pound butter, 1 pound brown sugar, 2 pounds currants, 2 pounds raisins, 1 pound dates, 10 eggs (8 will do), 1/4 pound almonds, 1/4 pound walnuts, 1/2 cup molasses or rose water, 1/2 teaspoon cloves, 1 teaspoon allspice, 1 teaspoon mace, 1 teaspoon mixed spice, vanilla to suit, 3/4 teaspoon soda, 5 cups flour, 3/4 or 1 cup brandy. Bandy may be mixed with other ingredients or poured over cake when baked. Bake in a very slow oven 3 to 4 hours. It is the best I have ever met. And everybody who has ever eaten the cake thinks it splendid.

Christmas Fruitcake Recipe With Sour Cream

1/3 cup butter, 1 cup brown sugar, 2 eggs or 4 yolks, 1/4 cup sour cream, 1/4 teaspoon baking soda, 1-3/4 cups flour, 1 cup seeded raisins, 1 cup chopped dates, 1/3 cup almonds (blanched and chopped), 1/4 cup citron (sliced thin), 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 teaspoon baking powder.

Mix and bake as in a Christmas cake recipe, or if you prefer the more commonly used method cream the butter and sugar. Mix a little of the flour with the fruit and add the rest alternately with the beaten eggs, and the cream in which the soda has been dissolved. Add the floured fruit last, stirring in about a third of it at a time.

If you wish to make a darker fruit cake from this recipe, add 1/2 teaspoon each of ground cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg. If you especially like the flavor of molasses, add 1 tablespoon molasses and about 2 tablespoons more flour.

Ornamental Frosting Recipe

Ingredients: 3 egg whites, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 1 pound icing sugar. Put the unbeaten egg whites in a large bowl, sift in icing sugar, and beat vigorously with a wooden spoon. Add lemon juice. Beat until stiff or until it will hold its shape when cut though with a knife. More sugar may be required. This icing is applied over a foundation such as almond paste. A pastry tube or a paper funnel may be used to apply fancy decorative trimming.

Pineapple Icing Recipe For Christmas Cake

Two and one-half cups granulated sugar, 1/2 cup corn syrup, 1/2 cup water, 2 egg whites, 1-1/2 teaspoons pineapple. Cook together the granulated sugar and the corn syrup in 1/2 cup water till it forms a soft ball; then pour over the egg whites beaten stiff and beat till the mixture is almost cold, creamy, and will hold shape when spread. While beating add pineapple. Can be used with or without almond paste. Any left over can be kept in a close-covered jar for further use.

Decorate with candied pineapple, red, green, and natural. Cut rings in wedge shapes and arrange in the form of a poinsettia, yellow for centers and green for leaves.

Almond Icing Recipe, Almond Paste

One pound ground almonds, 4 egg yolks, 1 teaspoon rose water, 1/2 teaspoon almond flavoring, 1 pound icing sugar.

Method: Add yolks to almonds, then flavorings and sugar gradually, working till mixture is very smooth and stiff as dough; cut to shape of cake. Moisten cake with water and press paste to it. Either leave for twenty-four hours before icing or bake in oven till top is delicately browned. --I. R. McK.

Inexpensive Almond Icing Recipe

Bake a sweet potato. When done, scoop out the inside and with a fork mix icing sugar into it to make a firm paste, gradually adding a few drops of almond extract for flavoring. This makes an excellent and inexpensive almond paste foundation for a decorative icing on Christmas fruitcakes. One sweet potato will take from 1 to 2 cups of icing sugar, depending on its size.

Ingredients: 5 teacupfuls of flour, 1 teacupful of melted butter, 1 teacupful of cream, 1 teacupful of treacle, 1 teacupful of moist sugar, 2 eggs, 1/2 oz of powdered ginger, 1/2 lb of raisins, 1 teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, 1 tablespoonful of vinegar.

Mode: Make the butter sufficiently warm to melt it, but do not allow it to oil; put the flour into a basin; add to it the sugar, ginger, and raisins, which should be stoned and cut into small pieces. When these dry ingredients are thoroughly mixed, stir in the butter, cream, treacle, and well-whisked eggs, and beat the mixture for a few minutes. Dissolve the soda in the vinegar, add it to the dough, and be particular that these latter ingredients are well incorporated with the others; put the cake into a buttered mold or tin, place it in a moderate oven immediately, and bake it from 1-3/4 to 2-1/4 hours.