Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, non alcoholic fruit cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

This non-alcoholic Christmas cake meets all my requirements. It has a much lighter crumb, it contains no alcohol at all, only a fair amount of sugar, less dried fruit than the original and due to the lack of alcohol and the use of less dried fruit, it is not as expensive anymore either. And this recipe has some exotic alcohol and non-alcohol options for soaking dried fruits. So making it kid-friendly is actually a piece of cake, literally.

Non alcoholic fruit cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Non alcoholic fruit cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook non alcoholic fruit cake using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Non alcoholic fruit cake:

1. Prepare 1 cup (210 grams) firmly packed light brown sugar
2. Take 1 cup (240 ml) water
3. Prepare 1/4 cup (55 grams) butter, diced
4. Make ready 1 teaspoon (2 grams) ground cinnamon
5. Get 1/2 teaspoon (1 gram) ground cloves
6. Make ready 1 teaspoon (2 grams) ground ginger
7. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon salt
8. Take 2 cups (300 grams) seedless raisins
9. Take 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
10. Get 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
11. Make ready 1 teaspoon (5 grams) baking soda
12. Get 1 cup (150 grams) candied and chopped mixed peel
13. Prepare 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Now, did you know that fruit cake has been around since the twelfth century in one form or another? Originally, they were considered an indulgence because of all of the dried fruits in the cake. But, eventually, fruit cakes stopped being as popular and now tend to be something we joke about getting. Tastes just like the authentic fruitcake (maybe even better!).

Instructions to make Non alcoholic fruit cake:

1. Butter, or spray with a nonstick vegetable spray, a 9 x 5 x 3 inch (23 x 13 x 8 cm) loaf pan. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
2. In a large saucepan, over medium heat, bring to a boil the sugar, water, butter, spices, and raisins. Boil for five minutes, then remove from heat, and let cool till lukewarm.
3. Stir into this mixture the lightly beaten eggs, flour, baking soda, vanilla extract and candied fruit. Pour into your prepared pan and bake for 50 - 65 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
4. Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack. Cover and store, if possible, for a few days before serving. This fruit cake can be frozen.

But, eventually, fruit cakes stopped being as popular and now tend to be something we joke about getting. Tastes just like the authentic fruitcake (maybe even better!). This cake is moist and stays moist for days, in fact, its flavor keeps getting better with time. The secret to the fruit cake according to Virginia Living Magazine is the Cuban fruitcake uses a light hand on the spices and gives the cake enough time to age in rum. A cake made without alcohol will not keep as well as one that is made and then fed with alcohol, so we would suggest that you do not make the cake more than one month in advance of eating.

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