Fruit Cake: Delicious Recipes and Decorating Tips

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Homemade fruit cake is a real treat for all family members. However, not every hostess seeks to please her household with such a delicacy. Often women think that making a cake is not an easy task. In fact, there are no particular difficulties in this. All it takes is the ingredients needed to bake a cake, time and patience.

Easy and Delicious Fruity Treat: Ingredients

A cake is not always a difficult delicacy to prepare. The recipe below is quite simple. The fruit layer in it denotes ordinary jam. You can take jam. By the way, in Soviet cakes, a layer of fruit always denoted jam or marmalade.

To make the cake, you will need ingredients for sponge cake, syrup, protein custard, filling and decoration. Products and quantities are shown in the table below.

Ingredients for making fruit cake

For biscuit	Forsyrup	For protein custard	For stuffing and decoration
eggs - 4 pieces; sugar - 110 g; flour - 100 g; starch - 20 g; rum essence - 1 ml; butter - 1 piece.	sugar - 80 g; water - 70 ml; cognac - 10 ml; rum essence - 1 ml.	sugar - 180 g; water - 55 ml; chilled egg whites - 2 or 3 pieces; powdered sugar - 6 g.	apricot jam or marmalade - 250 g; powdered sugar - 20g; canned apricots - 25g

Cooking biscuit

If you have planned the preparation of a cake with a fruit layer, then first remove the eggs from the refrigerator. They must be at room temperature. When the eggs lie a little in the kitchen, break them and mix with sugar. Beat this mixture with a mixer. Start at low speed. Gradually increase it to the maximum. Whisk the eggs for 10 minutes. As a result, the mixture will increase by 2 or 3 times.

Take a clean and dry cup. Mix flour with starch in it, sift and add to the sugar-egg mixture. Pour in the rum essence to give the biscuit a special flavor. Stir the dough. Grease a biscuit baking dish with butter and sprinkle with just a little flour. Pour the dough, preheat the oven to 190-200 degrees. Bake 40 minutes. After cooking, put the biscuit on the wire rack. He is with youmust cool and stand for about 9 hours. Then clean the biscuit with a grater. The crumbs will come in handy for finishing the sides of the cake.

Syrup and protein custard

A very important ingredient in a simple fruit cake is syrup. It is used to impregnate biscuits. Preparing the syrup is very simple. Pour sugar into water. Place the container on the stove and bring to a boil. Do not forget to constantly stir and remove the foam that forms on the surface of the water. After boiling, boil the syrup for about a couple of minutes. Then remove from heat. Set the syrup aside on your workbench. Cool it to 20 degrees, strain and add cognac with rum essence. The syrup is ready.

You just have to make the protein custard. With proper preparation, it turns out to be snow-white, tasty and quite thick. Combine water with sugar, put on fire. Meanwhile, prepare the whites. Beat them with a mixer (first at low speed, and then at high speed). Pour powdered sugar into the cream. Check sugar water. It should boil and heat up to 120 degrees. Immediately after removing the syrup from the stove, pour the finished syrup into the whites in a thin stream. Whisk quickly. Keep doing this for 5 minutes. Then it remains only to collect a delicacy from the resulting components.

Cake assembly

Cut the biscuit into 3 cakes. Soak them in syrup. To grease the biscuit, take apricot jam. Warm it up a little in the microwave so that its consistency is more liquid and easy to apply. After brushing the biscuitssurfaces, connect the cakes.

You will need to spread the protein custard on the top surface of the homemade fruit cake. To do this, take a pastry bag without a nozzle. Grease the sides of the cake with cream too (you can additionally sprinkle them with biscuit crumbs). Decorate the cream with canned apricots. Sprinkle them with powdered sugar on top.

Cake with fruit and berry decoration: food preparation

To make a fruity treat, it is not necessary to come up with an unusual cream with the right ingredients. You can make a simple cake and decorate it with fruits and berries. This option will appeal to family members. Fruit and berry top layer will give the cake a special taste, serve as its highlight.

If you are interested in this option, prepare the ingredients for making a biscuit. You will need:

• eggs - 5 pieces;
• sugar - 225g;
• flour - 125g;
• cocoa powder - 1 tablespoon;
• water - 100 ml.

For the filling, prepare ready-made custard (200 g). You will also need whipped cream with a fat content of 33% (200 g) and Cointreau liqueur (about 10 g). To garnish the fruit cake, use 1 kiwifruit, 2 canned peaches, a few canned pineapple rings, a small amount of fresh strawberries, about 70g of toasted almond flakes, and some apricot jam.

Baking sponge cakes and making cream

Use a mixer to beat all the eggs and only 125 g of sugar. When the mass becomeslush, add cocoa and flour previously sifted through a sieve and mix. Prepare a biscuit baking dish. Pour the resulting dough into it. Bake for about half an hour at a temperature of 180 degrees. After preparing the biscuit, cool it and cut into 3 layers. Make sugar syrup with remaining sugar and water. Soak the cakes with it.

Set the finished biscuit aside. In the next step, you will be making the filling. Mix the 3 ingredients needed to make it - custard, cream and liquor. With the resulting mixture, coat the cakes, the top of the cake and its sides. Sprinkle the treat with toasted almond flakes. Place pieces of fruit and berries on top. Warm up the apricot jam. Lubricate them with fruits and berries. Refrigerate the finished cake before serving.

Children's fruit cake: the first step in cooking

Children love everything unusual, so you should try especially hard in preparing treats for them. There are many options for children's cakes. One of them is called "Little Cat". The cake has an unusual shape, but it does not complicate the cooking process too much.

It all starts with baking a biscuit. You will need:

• eggs - 8 pieces;
• sugar - 250 g;
• flour - 200g

Crack the eggs and separate the whites from the yolks. Beat the whites with a mixer until “strong peaks” (to such a consistency that a pointed foam remains on the whisk). Pour sugar in several portions. Do not stop the whipping process. Furtherstart adding yolks to the mixture (1-2 pieces each). With the introduction of this ingredient, you can stop the mixer. Just stir the mixture after each addition of the yolks.

Then add the sifted flour in portions. Stir the mixture and turn on the mixer at a slow speed. Switch off after a few minutes. You will get a thick and homogeneous dough, resembling sour cream in consistency. Pour it into a paper-lined mold and cook in the oven.

Second cooking step

The next step in making a delicious fruit cake is making the cream and preparing the fruit. Required Ingredients:

• sour cream 25% fat – 200 ml;
• sugar - 100 g;
• curd mass - 600 g;
• butter - 100g

Beat sour cream with sugar. Add cottage cheese mass, butter. Continue whisking until a uniform consistency is formed. More in the preparation of the cream you do not need anything. After whipping, it will be ready to use. When you have made the cream, start slicing the fruit. Choose a combination your child loves, such as apple, pear and kiwi. Be sure to consider the baby's age, allergic reactions.

Third step: assembling the baby cake

On ordinary clean paper, draw the shape of the future fruit cake and cut it out. This will be your pattern. Attach it to the biscuit and cut off the edges, but do not completely cut out the cat. You will do this later. Biscuitcut into 3 cakes. Make sugar syrup from sugar and water. Soak a biscuit with it.

Smear the bottom cake with cream and sprinkle with fruit. Place the second piece of biscuit on top. Also grease it with cream and sprinkle with pieces of fruit. Cover this layer with the third layer. Next, attach the pattern and cut out the cat. Place the cake in the refrigerator to cool and soak.

Final step: decorating the treat

How to decorate a fruit cake for a child? To do this, you will need pink, black, yellow, red and white mastic. Roll out the red mastic in the form of an oval. Cut out a long rectangle. Collect the middle and opposite sides into an accordion. Bend the edges and glue them in the middle. You will get a bow. Cut out another small rectangle. Wrap them in the middle. To make it convenient for you to work with a bow, put a cut and crumpled plastic bag in the right and left halves.

Roll out a large layer of white mastic. Cover the finished cake with it. Smooth, remove excess mastic and folds. Attach the finished bow in the ear area. From yellow mastic, make a nose, from black - eyes and antennae, and from pink - a dress and shoes. This completes the preparation of the children's cake.

Advice for hostesses

Decorate any cake to your liking. It is very convenient to use mastic. It is naturally edible and safe. They sell it in online stores, confectionery departments. From mastic you can make various figures, flowers forcake decorations. If you need to write something on the treat, order more food coloring.

If there is no mastic, then decorate the top of the cake with fruits and berries. The delicacy looks very appetizing if there is jelly on the top. Here's a tip:

1. Put pieces of chopped fruit on top of the treat.
2. Make fruit cake jelly. Soak 4 g of agar-agar in 420 ml of cold water. A little later, put the liquid on fire. Heat it until the agar-agar is completely dissolved. Pour in 420 g of sugar. Boil the liquid until it dissolves for about 5 minutes. Turn off the stove. Strain the syrup and add 3 ml of aromatic essence, 2 g of citric acid and a pinch of any dye. Refrigerate.
3. Brush the jelly fruit. It should completely cover them and eventually freeze. You will get an unusual jelly top layer.

Making a fruit cake with biscuit baking is a creative activity. Think over your options for treats and decorations, experiment with ready-made recipes and introduce something new into them. Thanks to the search, truly delicious cakes are obtained, which you are not ashamed to treat your family members and guests.