Tia Rosita's Fruit Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 150 g Cashewnuts
- 150 g Cherries
- 150 g Raisins (black & yellow)
- 150 g Orange peels
- Wine (As required)
- 500 g Maida
- 500 g Sugar
- 500 g Margarine/ butter
- 12 eggs
- Nutmeg (As required)
- Few drops Vanilla essence
- Drinking chocolate (As required)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- Sugar caramel (As required)
Instructions
- The cherries, raisins and orange peels have to be soaked in wine for a few days.
- Beat sugar and butter/margarine till frothy.
- Add egg yolks and beat, after which add egg whites.
- Add soaked dry fruits and cashewnuts.
- Then add sugar caramel and beat for a while.
- Fold in maida with baking powder and add the drinking chocolate, nutmeg and vanilla essence according to taste.
- Bake it at 180-200 degree Celcius for around 50 minutes. There you go, an absolutely perfect fruit cake.