Apricot Brandy Fruit Cake Recipe

I soak the fruit in a shallow airtight glass or plastic container.

Apricot brandy fruit cake recipe.

This recipe starts 24 hours in advance with the soaking of the fruit in the brandy. In large mixing bowl combine cake mix pudding mix apricot brandy oil water and eggs. The texture and mointness is awesome. The holiday season presents a prickly moral dilemma for my mother.

You can do this days or weeks in advance if you want. With a shallow pan of water in the bottom of the oven bake at 275 for 2 1 2 hours or until cake tests done. Cover with foil during the last 30 minutes. Use real butter and add a little coconut flavouring.

Fold into fruit mixture. Stir then nuke again for 30 seconds or until syrup mixture boils. Baking soda 1 c. Meanwhile place ripe and dry apricots in a clean bottle or jar ball style.

Absolutely the best fruit cake i have ever made. But mama s a southern baptist so drinkin s a sin. Her signature dessert is a meticulously faithful execution of great aunt margaret s christmas fruitcake recipe which must be soaked in peach brandy. Marvellous would highly recommend.

Place water and jam in microwave save container and nuke 1 minute on high. 1 of 3 apricot fruitcake. Mix 1 cup flour to the above and stir well. Marinate overnight in about 4 jiggers of apricot brandy.

Gradually fold into the fruit mixture until evenly coated. Apricot brandy white fruitcake recipe. 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 batter over pecans in prepared bundt pan.

Stirring them several times during the day. 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. 2 in large bowl beat all ingredients except powdered sugar with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds scraping bowl constantly. Grease bottom and sides of 12 cup fluted tube cake pan or 10 inch angel food tube cake pan with shortening.

Keep in tightly covered container. Pour into two greased and waxed paper lined 9x5 in. 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.