Fruitcakes!!!
Clearly, I've been busy lately. I'm giving food for Christmas gifts this year to friends, so I have to have a lot to hand out. Plus, I want it for me!
I love good fruitcake. We were at Lunds today, they had tiny fruitcakes, without alcohol, with nasty candied fruits for $9.99. OUTRAGEOUS. So, I made my own
I mostly used Alton Brown's Free Range Fruitcake. I love Alton. If anyone is looking for a gift for me, an Alton Brown book would be perfect.
To start, take all the dried fruit, the fruit peels, and your rum, mix it, and stick it in the fridge for at least 24 hours. Stir from time to time.
Next, put it all in a pot with sugar and apple juice.
Add butter
Grind up your spices
and throw them in to the pot.
At this time, it needs to come to a boil, so, I opened a bottle of wine.
After it does the boiling thing, it has to cool for a while. I started another project, which we will get to in the next post.
Once cooled, stir in the dry ingredients
And eggs
Your batter looks like this
I added nuts to it too.
Put in a pan and cook.
Once it comes out, you immediately douse with brandy.
Once completely cool, I covered them (I doubled the recipe) with cheese cloth and doused again with brandy. They are stored in Tupperware containers and will be doused with brandy every few days until Christmas. Nummy.
I love good fruitcake. We were at Lunds today, they had tiny fruitcakes, without alcohol, with nasty candied fruits for $9.99. OUTRAGEOUS. So, I made my own
I mostly used Alton Brown's Free Range Fruitcake. I love Alton. If anyone is looking for a gift for me, an Alton Brown book would be perfect.
To start, take all the dried fruit, the fruit peels, and your rum, mix it, and stick it in the fridge for at least 24 hours. Stir from time to time.
Next, put it all in a pot with sugar and apple juice.
Add butter
Grind up your spices
and throw them in to the pot.At this time, it needs to come to a boil, so, I opened a bottle of wine.
After it does the boiling thing, it has to cool for a while. I started another project, which we will get to in the next post.
Once cooled, stir in the dry ingredients
And eggs
Your batter looks like this
I added nuts to it too.Put in a pan and cook.
Once it comes out, you immediately douse with brandy.
Once completely cool, I covered them (I doubled the recipe) with cheese cloth and doused again with brandy. They are stored in Tupperware containers and will be doused with brandy every few days until Christmas. Nummy.
posted by Kassie @ Sunday, November 25, 2007
1 Comments:
At November 27, 2007 2:24 PM ,
Anonymous said...
This is a favorite recipe, but I need to substitute something else for the rum. I give these as gifts and some are recovering and would not want to put them at risk. I just found out that the alcohol does not cook off, as I have always thought.
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