Best Stained Glass Cake Fruitcake Recipes

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STAINED GLASS CAKE



Stained Glass Cake image

This beautiful fruit cake looks best cut into thin slices to show off the colours of the fruits and nuts. This is great to serve at Christmas time- or any time with coffee and port after dinner! An Australian cup is 250mls and a tablespoon contains 4 teaspoons. Thanks to the reviewer who pointed out my typo in the intro :-)

Provided by JustJanS

Categories     Dessert

Time 1h50m

Yield 1 cake

Number Of Ingredients 16

250 g dessert dates, stoned
125 g glace pineapple
125 g glace apricot
125 g glace cherries
125 g glace green cherries
125 g whole blanched almonds
250 g shelled brazil nuts
125 g prunes, stoned and halved
2 eggs
1/2 cup brown sugar, lightly packed
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
2 tablespoons rum (40ml)
90 g butter
1/2 cup plain flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 pinch salt

Steps:

  • Chop the pineapple and apricots into fairly large pieces, and leave the remaining fruit and nuts whole.
  • Mix all these fruits and nuts together, then reserve a half cup of them for the topping.
  • Beat the eggs until light and fluffy, then add the sugar, vanilla essence, rum and softened butter.
  • Continue beating until well blended.
  • Sift the flour with the baking powder and salt and add with the fruit and nuts, mix thoroughly.
  • Grease a 20cm ring tin and line the base.
  • Spoon mixture evenly into the tin, arrange the reserved fruit and nuts over the top, pressing down gently.
  • Bake in a slow oven for about 1 1/2 hours or until cake is firm to touch.
  • Allow to cool for 10 minutes in the tin before turning out.
  • Store in an airtight container wrapped in foil.
  • To serve, cut into very thin slices with a very sharp knife-the thin slices show off the beautiful colours of the fruits.

STAINED-GLASS CAKE (FRUITCAKE)



Stained-Glass Cake (Fruitcake) image

From the traditional to the (comparatively) new-fangled. Stained glass or bishopcakes, very popular in the UK, are so called, one presumes, because they consist almost entirely of glace fruit and nuts, and the glace fruit has something of the translucency of a stained-glass church window.

Provided by HELEN PEAGRAM

Categories     Dessert

Time 1h30m

Yield 1 cake, 8 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 17

1 cup plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 lb glace pineapple
2 ounces glace pear
2 ounces glace kiwi fruit
2 ounces glace apple
2 ounces glace apricot
4 ounces glace cherries
4 ounces sultanas
4 ounces currants
2 eggs
1/3 cup brown sugar
4 ounces blanched almonds, Halved
4 ounces pecan nuts, Halved
4 ounces macadamia nuts, Halved
4 ounces brazil nuts, Halved
1/4 cup Grand Marnier or 1/4 cup Cointreau liqueur

Steps:

  • Butter a large cake tin. Line with waxed paper. Butter the paper.
  • Chop the glace fruits roughly.
  • Sift together the flour and baking powder.
  • Mix in all the fruits, together with the nuts.
  • Put the mixture into the cake tin, wet hands and press mixture down firmly.
  • Bake in a preheated 300F degree oven for 1 1/2 hours.
  • Take cake out of the oven and drizzle the Grand Marnier or Cointreau over the top.
  • Leave the cake in the oven to cool until warm, then wrap it, tin and all, in aluminum foil and refrigerate overnight. Remove from tin, peel away paper and store in airtight tin.

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