Soft Icing For Fruitcake

And here s how the making part goes down.

Soft icing for fruitcake.

Use a spatula to clean around the edges of the bowl every so often as you whisk. Scrape into the tin level the surface and bake for 1 hr 15 mins until a skewer poked in comes out clean. Beat the butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one by one then fold in the flour and almonds dried fruit and brandy.

The key step that makes this so much faster to make than other fruit cakes is the fruit soaking step most recipes call for dried fruit to be soaked overnight. I take a speedy approach. Just microwave the dried fruit with juice and or brandy then stand for 1 hour to soak up the liquid. In a food processor whizz the almonds with the flour until the mix resembles crumbs.

Make the royal icing recipe and then spread it over the marzipan covered cake with a flat palette knife in either a smooth layer or swirled to make little peaks all over the surface of the cake. How to make christmas cake. Put the egg whites and icing sugar into the bowl and whisk for 5 7 mins until you have a thick very glossy frosting. Fruitcake cookies are chewy sugar cookies stuffed full of candied fruits raisins and toasted pecans for a unique twist on the classic christmas fruitcake.

And we re back with day 11 of the 12 days of christmas cookies. Royal icing can also be used to simply pipe decorative elements on the cake such as swirls swags and snowflakes. Apply the royal icing. Scoop the frosting onto the top of the cake and spread it around with a flat edged knife swirling as you go to create a snowy effect see knowhow.

It s so simple to make and you ll feel like a kid again visiting grandma when you bite into it.