Fruit cake with chocolate icing

Name: Fruit cake with chocolate icing
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 18
Ingredients: 200 g butter/margarine; 175 g Sugar; 1 pinch Salt; 1 package Vanillin sugar; 7-10 Tbsp grated rind of 1 untreated lemon; 4 Eggs (Gr. M); 200 g Flour; 100 g crushed almonds; 7-10 Tbsp 1/2 p. baking powder, 1/4 tsp cinnamon; 1 knife tip mixed cloves; 1 knife tip rubbed. Nutmeg; 100 g dried dates; 100 g dried figs; 50 g red cherries; 100 g + 50 g trail mix; 200 g semi-bitter couverture; 7-10 Tbsp Fat and breadcrumbs

AUTHOR
Kristopher Marks

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
105 mins

TOTAL TIME
105 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 18

200 g butter/margarine
175 g Sugar
1 pinch Salt
1 package Vanillin sugar
7-10 Tbsp grated rind of 1 untreated lemon
4 Eggs (Gr. M)
200 g Flour
100 g crushed almonds
7-10 Tbsp 1/2 p. baking powder, 1/4 tsp cinnamon
1 knife tip mixed cloves
1 knife tip rubbed. Nutmeg
100 g dried dates
100 g dried figs
50 g red cherries
100 g + 50 g trail mix
200 g semi-bitter couverture
7-10 Tbsp Fat and breadcrumbs

Directions

1
Cream fat, sugar, salt, vanillin sugar and lemon. Stir in eggs. Mix flour, almonds, baking powder and spices, fold in
2
Chop dates, figs and cherries (up to 5). Mix with 100 g of trail mix, fold into the dough. Grease a saddle of venison or box form (approx. 30 cm long) and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Pour in the dough
3
Bake the cake in a hot oven (electric cooker: 200 °C / convection oven: 175 °C / gas: level 3) for 60-70 minutes. Remove, turn out after approx. 10 minutes and let cool off
4
Melt the couverture. Cover the cake with it. Chop the rest of the cherries and 50 g of trail mix. Sprinkle on the cake and let it dry