Cooking & Baking
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(51,276 posts)If you scroll down to where the Pillsbury Community Manager responds, you'll find the recipe.
guardian
(2,282 posts)but I like to triple the actual cake portion of fruit cake. I like to taste the cake part. I don't like recipes that just use cake to glue dried fruit together.
gkhouston
(21,642 posts)Off the top of my head, here are some options:
reduce flour
increase eggs/milk/jam/other wet ingredient
use shortening or oil instead of butter
reduce the oven temperature by 25 degrees
If you still have the fruitcake now, perhaps you could poke small holes in it and pour some liqueur over it to moisten.
guardian
(2,282 posts)we generally pour some brandy over the cakes and wrap in cheescloth to help keep the brandy/moisture next to the cake.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)a brandy, added slowly over a couple of weeks will improve it.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)I did stumble across this on the internet while looking for the copycat Claxton tho and it looks yummy. Here's the link:
http://www.ellenskitchen.com/recipebox/fruitcak.html
Doesn't that sound wonderful?
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)I can't re-print it because of copyright restrictions.
Thanks for all the advice!
Buck Turgidson
(488 posts)I made this one two Christmas' ago. It takes a long time but the cake is wonderful. Alton uses dried fruit rather than those nasty candied glacé fruit. Then spritz the cake with brandy everyday for a couple of weeks. So it is not dry.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/free-range-fruitcake-recipe/index.html
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)antiquie
(4,299 posts)Last edited Sun Jan 20, 2013, 09:38 PM - Edit history (1)
TheManInTheMac
(985 posts)I remember one cook on TV (I think it was the Urban Peasant, you old Learning Channel fans) and he just made a poundcake with fruit in it. Yeah, it's cake and fruit, but I don't think it's fruitcake. I can't imagine how to make a dry fruitcake, nor an edible one either.
Buck Turgidson
(488 posts)Cake + fruit + nuts + brandy = fruitcake