Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, light fruit cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

For this Light Fruit Cake I like to use a combination of candied mixed peel and candied cherries (can use either red or green). Candied fruit is actually preserved fruit that has been dipped several times. Light Fruit Cake- rich, luscious Madeira cake that's light, fluffy and moist with a wonderful buttery taste studded with dried mixed fruits.

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

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook light fruit cake using 24 ingredients and 27 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Light fruit cake:

1. Prepare For the cream:
2. Get milk
3. Make ready double cream
4. Take sugar
5. Make ready gelatine
6. Get cold water
7. Take egg yolks
8. Prepare corn starch
9. Make ready tropical fruit or 800 grams of caned fruit
10. Get For the jelly:
11. Prepare tropical fruit or 800 grams of caned fruit
12. Take syrup from the caned fruit
13. Take gelatine
14. Prepare cold water
15. Get sugar
16. Get For the base:
17. Get lady fingers
18. Take water
19. Prepare sugar
20. Get For decoration:
21. Take double cream
22. Get powders sugar
23. Prepare strawberrys
24. Prepare rasberrys

It's dotted with glace cherries, pineapple, raisins, mixed peel and almonds. It's the perfect cake to be used as a wedding or Christmas cake. I prefer a slightly lighter cake with lots of fruit and nuts. And from a convenience perspective I could not be bothered to boil all the fruit.

Steps to make Light fruit cake:

1. Rehydrate the gelatine with the cold water.
2. Mix it well. Wait 10 minutes.
3. Put the egg yolks in a sauce pan.
4. Add the sugar.
5. Add the corn starch.
6. Mix evrithing together.
7. Add half of the milk and mix.
8. Add the rest of the milk and mix well.
9. Put the pan on medium heat and stir until it thickens.
10. When the cream is thick take it off the heat and and add the gelatine.
11. After fully melting the gelatine put plastic wrap on the surface of the cream, let it cool at room temperature.
12. Meanwhile add the sugar to the hot water, let it cool down.
13. Dip the lady fingers in the syrup and cover the hole area of the pan. The pan I used is 25 cm by 35 cm.
14. When the cream is cooled whip the double cream until stiff.
15. After that fold the whipped cream in the egg cream.
16. Put half of the cream in the pan.
17. Then add the two cans of fruit.
18. And the last half of the cream.
19. Now rehydrate the gelatine with the cold water. And wait 10 minutes.
20. Heat the syrup from the fruit for the jelly until almost boiling.
21. Add the gelatine and sugar and stir until dissolved.
22. Add the fruit and gelatine syrup in a large jug.
23. Blend until smooth. Then add in the pan.
24. Let it chill for at least 5 hours.
25. Whip the cream with the sugar until stiff and add on cake.
26. Wash the fruit and decorate.
27. Finish with a ribbon and a bow.

I tried this recipe last year for christmas and it was exactly the way. When summer fruit is at its sweetest, it doesn't take a lot of work to transform it into one of these delicious, healthy desserts. "This cake is amazing, and it's so easy to make! Light and fruity, this simple cake is perfect for an afternoon tea with friends or family. Now stir in the soaked fruits with the juices and when well mixed, spoon into the prepared cake tin. Everyday Fruit Cake is almost apologetically easy.

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