Fruitcake

AUTHOR
Bill Macdonald
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 1
COOK TIME
75 mins
TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 1
  • 1/2 glass (360 ml; extract weight: 230 g) Sour cherries
  • 1/2 glass (360 ml; separation weight: 215 g) Gooseberries
  • 1 jar(s) (425 ml; separation weight: 250 g) Apricots
  • 350 g Apples
  • 1 TABLESPOON Lemon juice
  • 250 g Butter or margarine
  • 250 g Sugar
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 4 Eggs (size M)
  • 375 g Flour
  • 1 package Baking Powder
  • 1/8 l Milk
  • 20 g Raisins
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Almond slivers
  • 10 g Butter
  • 1 TABLESPOON Sugar
  • 1 TABLESPOON Sugar crystals
  • 1 TABLESPOON crushed pistachios
  • 10 g Dark chocolate
  • 1 TEASPOON Icing sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Fat and breadcrumbs

Directions

  1. 1

    Drain cherries, gooseberries and apricots. Peel, quarter and core apples. Cut apple quarters into thin slices. Drizzle apples with lemon juice. For the sponge mixture, beat the fat, sugar and salt with the whisk of the hand mixer until creamy.

  2. 2

    Add eggs bit by bit and stir in. Mix flour and baking powder, add with milk to the fat egg mass and stir in. Fill the dough into a greased springform pan (28 cm Ø) sprinkled with breadcrumbs and smooth it down. Cover one quarter each with cherries, gooseberries, apricots and apple slices. Additionally sprinkle apple quarters with raisins and almond slivers. Add butter as flakes. Sprinkle with sugar. Bake the cake in the preheated oven (electric: 200 °C/ gas: level 3) for 45-55 minutes. Let it cool down a little, remove from the springform pan and let it cool down on a cake rack. Sprinkle gooseberries with sugar crystals, apricots with pistachios.

  3. 3

    Sprinkle with sugar. Bake the cake in the preheated oven (electric: 200 °C/ gas: level 3) for 45-55 minutes. Let it cool down a little, remove from the springform pan and let it cool down on a cake rack. Sprinkle gooseberries with sugar crystals, apricots with pistachios. Peel off the chocolate with a peeler. Dust the cherries with icing sugar and sprinkle the chocolate rolls over them. Makes about 12 pieces

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
500 kcal
CARBS
63 g
FATS
22 g
PROTEINS
7 g

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