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Dried Fruit Cake

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Dried Fruit Cake

Dried Fruit Cake is one of the easiest and most delicious homemade cakes, perfect with a cup of tea or coffee. Try it and enjoy!

Total time120 min
Prep35 min
Cook85 min
Yield8 servings
DifficultyMedium
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DessertsInternationalVegetarianNut freeMediumLong cook

Recipe story

Dried Fruit Cake is one of the easiest and most delicious homemade cakes, perfect with a cup of tea or coffee. Try it and enjoy!

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups sifted flour
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 185 grams butter
  • 1/2 cup fine powdered sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 cup dried fruits, depending on what we have available: raisins / dried apricots / dried cherries / dried cranberries / sugar-coated dried pineapple ..

Method

  1. Begin by creaming the softened butter with an electric mixer, then add the fine powdered sugar.
  2. Add the eggs in stages, one egg at a time, beating continuously.
  3. Add the dried fruit, chopped into small pieces, in stages, and at the same time add the sifted flour and the liquid milk in several batches, mixing continuously with a spatula.
  4. Grease a cake pan with a little butter or tahini, then pour in the dried fruit cake batter.
  5. Bake the dried fruit cake in a preheated oven at 170 degrees for 45 minutes to an hour, depending on your oven's strength and type, until the cake is completely done.
  6. Allow the cake to cool completely before removing it from the pan and transferring it to a serving plate, then decorate as desired.
  7. This dried fruit cake recipe comes to you today from the #شو_طابخين_اليوم kitchen.
  8. For the turmeric muftaqa preparation method, in the #شو_طابخين_اليوم style, click this link: Beirut-style muftaqa recipe.
  9. To prepare qshta or qaimar the Sho Tabkhin Al-Youm way, click the link to watch the method in video: How to prepare qshta/qaimar.
  10. For more of our recipes, click this link: Watch the video showing how to prepare a meat pie (meat disc in dough).
  11. Click this link to watch the video: How to prepare spinach quiche.
  12. #recipes #Sho_Tabkhin_AlYoum #muftaqa #desserts
  13. #cake #cake #dried_fruit_cake #fruit_cake #dried_fruit_cake #sweets

Notes and serving ideas

  • Beirut-style Mutafaqa
  • How to Make Ashta/Qaymar
  • Watch the video for how to make meat pie in dough
  • the video method for making spinach quiche
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