Recipe: Tasty Over night soaked fruit cake

Over night soaked fruit cake. Speedy Christmas Cake that requires no overnight fruit soaking! An easy fruit cake that's rich with a velvety texture, super moist and full flavoured. I know Christmas is coming so everyone has almost started with the Fruitcake preparations.

I show you all the tips and tricks to successfully soak fruits for Christmas. This light and fruity afternoon treat uses our new National Trust Fairtrade tea; blended exclusively for us in partnership with Clipper. If you leave the fruit to soak overnight this will impart more of the tea flavour to the fruit. You can cook Over night soaked fruit cake using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Over night soaked fruit cake

1. 🢂 225 g of plain flour.
2. 🢂 225 g of butter.
3. 🢂 225 g of dark brown sugar.
4. 🢂 4 of eggs.
5. 🢂 2 tsp of cinnamon.
6. 🢂 2 tsp of mixed spice.
7. 🢂 1 of kilo mixed fruit.
8. 🢂 750 of fl orange/apple juice (brandy if wish).

This Recipe is the first step to start making your Traditional Christmas Cake (Soak the fruits in Rum). This easy fruit cake recipe is an easy christmas cake recipe with rum. Tip the dried fruits, ginger and rum into a bowl and leave to soak for a couple of hours or overnight, if you like. Fruit cake has such a bad rep, which is why I'm calling this Boozy Christmas Cake instead.

step by step Over night soaked fruit cake

1. Measure out all fruit and mixed with fluids. Leave overnight to soak up the liquid and expand the fruit..
2. Preheat oven to 140 degrees.
3. Mix flour, sugar, spices, eggs and butter in a large mixing bowl. Mix until smooth.
4. Slowly add the fruit, mixing as you go..
5. Transfer the cake into greased tins..
6. Leave to cook for 4 hours, after look for a spongy top and a clean knife..

That just sounds so much better, doesn't it? This will soften the dried fruit - making for plump rum-soaked fruit. You can use any dried fruit you'd like but consider making my homemade tutti frutti. Soak the dry fruits in either of the juice overnight in the fridge. This fruit cake recipe doesn't need you to soak the dry fruits in advance and it's alcohol-free so you can make the cake instantly just before you need it.