Best Bourbon Fruit Cake Recipe

The cakes are done when a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean.

Best bourbon fruit cake recipe.

Refrigerate overnight and saturate again with bourbon. Pour over the fruit and nuts. Preheat oven to 300. This southern bourbon cake certainly has that.

Beat in eggs and vanilla. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 15 minutes before turning out. Be sure to get a good bourbon because that s where all the flavor is going to come from. Grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan and line the bottom with greased waxed paper.

In a large bowl combine the candied fruits raisins currants and bourbon. On the first day combine the candied orange peel candied citron candied pineapple red and green candied cherries currants raisins walnuts and almonds. Add the melted chocolate walnuts and the marinated fruit along with the bourbon. Place fruit and liquid in a non reactive pot with the sugar butter apple juice and spices.

It s a dense cake that has a strong bourbon flavor mellowed with the addition of buttery chopped pecans. In another bowl cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Bake at 275 f for about 3 to 3 1 2 hours or until a wooden pick or cake tester inserted in center comes out clean. Fruitcake can remain in its pan for storage if desired.

Put flour and spices in a large paper bag add fruit and shake well and add to batter. Test cake with wooden pick. Let the fruit marinate in a cool place for 1 full day or at least 20 hours. Beat in the eggs on at a time.

Cream softened butter and sugar using an electric mixer until well combined. Brush the warm cake with rum or brandy. Remove the cakes from the oven. Add beaten egg whites last.

Line tube pan with waxed paper and pour cake batter into pan. Stir and then cover tightly. Bring mixture to a boil stirring often then reduce heat and simmer for 5 to 10 minutes. Sift all dry ingredients and stir until well combined.

Place fruit and nuts in a large bowl and toss well with the 1 2 cup all purpose flour. Wrap cake with bourbon soaked cheesecloth then with plastic wrap. Stir 1 3 cup bourbon into milk in measuring cup. When almost cool brush sides and inside hole heavily with bourbon.

Cream together the butter and brown sugar until fluffy in a kitchenaid mixer. Mix well cover and marinate 3 hours on the counter. Then more bourbon is poured over the warm cake and finally a bourbon butter glaze is drizzled over the top. Or carefully remove cake from the pan after about 5 minutes loosening its edges first.

Make a batter with the sugar applesauce butter molasses and egg yolks. Pour the batter into the pan. Soak all fruits and nuts in 1 cup kentucky bourbon for 24 hours. Set the cake on a rack to cool.

May take longer than 5 hours.