Apricot Brandy Fruit Cake Recipe

Marinate overnight in about 4 jiggers of apricot brandy.

Apricot brandy fruit cake recipe.

Her signature dessert is a meticulously faithful execution of great aunt margaret s christmas fruitcake recipe which must be soaked in peach brandy. In large mixing bowl combine cake mix pudding mix apricot brandy oil water and eggs. Absolutely the best fruit cake i have ever made. Stir then nuke again for 30 seconds or until syrup mixture boils.

Use real butter and add a little coconut flavouring. Pour batter over pecans in prepared bundt pan. Grease bottom and sides of 12 cup fluted tube cake pan or 10 inch angel food tube cake pan with shortening. Stirring them several times during the day.

The texture and mointness is awesome. 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. I soak the fruit in a shallow airtight glass or plastic container. The holiday season presents a prickly moral dilemma for my mother.

2 in large bowl beat all ingredients except powdered sugar with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds scraping bowl constantly. Gradually fold into the fruit mixture until evenly coated. After 24 hours the fruit should have soaked up practically all of the rum. 1 of 3 apricot fruitcake.

This recipe starts 24 hours in advance with the soaking of the fruit in the brandy. Fold into fruit mixture. 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.

Pour into two greased and waxed paper lined 9x5 in. Baking soda 1 c. 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. But mama s a southern baptist so drinkin s a sin.

Meanwhile place ripe and dry apricots in a clean bottle or jar ball style. Place water and jam in microwave save container and nuke 1 minute on high. Apricot brandy white fruitcake recipe. Cover with foil during the last 30 minutes.

Mix 1 cup flour to the above and stir well. Beat on medium speed for 10 minutes. Keep in tightly covered container.