Easy Pound Cake with Dried Fruit
Easy Pound Cake with Dried Fruit

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, easy pound cake with dried fruit. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Great recipe for Easy Pound Cake with Dried Fruit. I created this recipe because I wanted to make a delicious pound cake that can be a little gift to take to somebody's house. There are recipes that use vegetable oil, but the butter definitely makes the cake more delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook easy pound cake with dried fruit using 8 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Pound Cake with Dried Fruit:
  1. Get Butter (or margarine)
  2. Prepare Sugar
  3. Get Eggs
  4. Get Cake flour
  5. Make ready Baking powder
  6. Make ready Brandy
  7. Make ready Dried fruit (raisins, orange peels, etc.)
  8. Get Brandy (for soaking the dried fruit)

Stir in remaining flour, candied fruit, and walnuts; mix until just combined. Then, just before serving it, sprinkle the top lightly with powdered sugar, and–with pieces of larger dried fruits such as whole dates, apricot halves, apple slices, pear & peach halves, etc–fill the center of the cake & also place some on the edge of the serving plate all around the cake. From Alice Medrich's book Pure Dessert. These are basically fruit and nuts with a bit of flour and eggs to bind them together.

Instructions to make Easy Pound Cake with Dried Fruit:
  1. Soak the dried fruit in the brandy overnight. It's not mandatory. Combine the flour and baking powder, and sift. Bring the eggs and butter to room temperature.
  2. Line the pan with parchment paper. Preheat the oven to 170°C.
  3. Cream the butter until it turns white. If you melt it until it becomes liquid, the flavor will deteriorate. Add the sugar, and mix well.
  4. Beat the eggs, and add in 5 batches. (If you mix the mixture well at this point, you will have a delicate and smooth cake.)
  5. Drain the excess liquid from the dried fruit, and coat with 1 tablespoon of the sifted flour. It will prevent them from sinking in the cake.
  6. Add the remaining sifted flour to Step 4, followed by the dried fruit, then fold them into the batter in with a spatula. Make sure the mixture is not lumpy!
  7. Mix in the brandy. Pour the batter into the pan, and drop it onto the counter about 3 times from the height of 20 cm to remove the air bubbles.
  8. Bake in the preheated oven for 30-40 minutes at 170°C. Insert a bamboo skewer and when it comes out clean, it's done.
  9. If it seems like it might burn halfway through, cover with aluminium foil and continue baking.
  10. Let it cool, and cover with plastic wrap. This will make the cake moist. Cut into slices the next day. Pound cakes taste delicious after 2-3 days.
  11. I made it with 60 g of dried fruit this time.
  12. Please bring the eggs to room temperature before using them If they are still cold, they will make the butter cold, and make the mixture separate easily.

Exceptionally easy to make, delicious and nutritious, this cake makes not just a fantastic snack, but also a perfect addition to the cheese platter. The fruits can be varied, and as long as they are natural, unsulfered and of a good quality, the end result will be. Spoon the cake batter evenly over the fruit in the skillet. In another bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. A quick and easy fruit cake for tea time that tastes best fresh out of the oven.

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