Apricot Brandy Fruit Cake Recipe

The holiday season presents a prickly moral dilemma for my mother.

Apricot brandy fruit cake recipe.

Stirring them several times during the day. Pour batter over pecans in prepared bundt pan. Apricot brandy white fruitcake recipe. But mama s a southern baptist so drinkin s a sin.

In large mixing bowl combine cake mix pudding mix apricot brandy oil water and eggs. Sugar 4 eggs 2 c. My partner was one of my test cake tasters and i have more than a sneaking suspicion that he might have been guilty of finding minor things to improve. I soak the fruit in a shallow airtight glass or plastic container.

Keep in tightly covered container. Mix 1 cup flour to the above and stir well. Absolutely the best fruit cake i have ever made. Gradually fold into the fruit mixture until evenly coated.

Grease bottom and sides of 12 cup fluted tube cake pan or 10 inch angel food tube cake pan with shortening. Cover with foil during the last 30 minutes. Pour into two greased and waxed paper lined 9x5 in. You can do this days or weeks in advance if you want.

Place water and jam in microwave save container and nuke 1 minute on high. Stir then nuke again for 30 seconds or until syrup mixture boils. Beat on medium speed for 10 minutes. 1 of 3 apricot fruitcake.

Fold into fruit mixture. Soak the chopped apricots and dried fruit except the cherries in the brandy in a bowl overnight leave out in the kitchen and by the morning the fruit will have absorbed the brandy. Use real butter and add a little coconut flavouring. This recipe starts 24 hours in advance with the soaking of the fruit in the brandy.

Meanwhile place ripe and dry apricots in a clean bottle or jar ball style. 2 in large bowl beat all ingredients except powdered sugar with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds scraping bowl constantly. With a shallow pan of water in the bottom of the oven bake at 275 for 2 1 2 hours or until cake tests done. Marinate overnight in about 4 jiggers of apricot brandy.

Marvellous would highly recommend. Her signature dessert is a meticulously faithful execution of great aunt margaret s christmas fruitcake recipe which must be soaked in peach brandy. I honed and perfected my own recipe for apricot brandy white fruitcake posted at the bottom of this page by baking oodles and oodles of test cakes.