In a large bowl cream together butter and brown sugar add egg mix together.
Rum fruit cake ingredients.
1 1 2 cups 223g chopped dates.
Mix into butter and sugar in three batches alternating with molasses and milk.
Sprinkle a cap of rum across the top of the cake.
Wrap the cake in plastic wrap to keep moisture in.
Stir in soaked fruit and chopped nuts.
Heaping 1 cup 170g candied red cherries plus additional for decoration if desired.
In another bowl sift together flour baking soda sea salt and cinnamon.
Ingredients 16 ounces pitted dates 32 ounces candied red whole cherries 24 ounces candied green whole cherries 24 ounces candied pineapple 16 ounces pecans optional nuts you choose 3 cups apple sauce 1 cup coconut oil or 1 cup butter 1 1 2 cups white sugar or raw sugar 4 1 2 cups all purpose.
Add rum and macerate overnight or microwave for 5 minutes to re hydrate fruit.
Place fruit and liquid in a non reactive pot with the sugar butter apple juice and spices.
Bring mixture to a boil stirring often then reduce.
With its two key ingredients rum and butter it ought to be a hit.
1 1 2 cups 255g raisins golden or regular.
If you have a week or two do it couple of times.
1 cup 128g diced dried apricots.
Any kind of rum dark preferably.
In a medium bowl with lid add all of your chopped fruits and add 1 4 cup dark rum cover and soak over night or few hours at room temperature.
Prunes currants raisins and glaced cherries are chopped finely then soaked in red wine and dark rum for months and years on end.
When baking my home is fragranced with the cake s citrusy notes.
1 1 2 cups 213g diced dried pineapple.
Ingredients 3 4 cup all purpose flour 1 2 teaspoon baking powder 1 4 teaspoon salt 2 cups chopped walnuts 1 package 8 ounces pitted dates chopped 1 cup maraschino cherries halved 1 2 cup dried mangoes chopped 3 large eggs room temperature 3 4 cup packed brown sugar 1 cup spiced rum divided.
Poke a toothpick across the top of the cake penetrating deeply.
This recipe includes dried fruit instead of the glowing candied stuff we ve all learned to associate with fruitcake and is less dense and more cake like than many fruitcake recipes.
1 3 cup 64g diced crystallized ginger.
Combine dried fruits candied ginger and both zests.
Scrape batter into prepared pan.
The fruit mixture is added to cake batter along with aromatic flavorings and warm spices.
Alternatively use an injection needle and inject some rum into the cake randomly.