Chocolate Fruit Cake. Nigella's easy chocolate fruit cake is dark, moist and delicious – loaded with coffee and orange flavours. The Chocolate Fruit Cake recipe out of our category Chocolate Cake! Basic ingredients jazz up this easy cake, one that's sure to bring "oohs" and "aahs!" —Taste of Home Test Kitchen.
Home made delicious cake with fresh fruits & chocolate. Brownies-cheesecake tower with raspberries on white plate, wooden backdrop. A wide variety of chocolate fruit cake options are available to you, such as flavor. You can have Chocolate Fruit Cake using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Chocolate Fruit Cake
- It’s 350 grams of Dried Prunes (chopped).
- Prepare 250 grams of Raisins.
- You need 125 grams of Currants.
- It’s 175 grams of Butter.
- You need 175 grams of Molasses Sugar.
- Prepare 175 ml of Honey.
- Prepare 125 ml of Coffee Liqueur.
- It’s 2 of Oranges (Zested & Juiced).
- You need 1 tsp of Mixed Spice.
- It’s 2 tbsp of Cocoa.
- Prepare 3 of Eggs (Beaten).
- Prepare 150 grams of Flour.
- You need 75 grams of Almonds (Ground).
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of Baking Powder.
- You need 1/2 tsp of Baking Soda.
Yesterday I made chocolate fruit cake / super plum moist cake without parchment paper as it is not available in market, did by aluminium foil coated with butter but still cake was not baked properly. Change up the fruit cake this year by giving it a rich chocolate flavor. Spreading chocolate ganache over the cake completes the transformation. Top chocolate truffle cake with another cup of passion fruit curd follow by the the remaining orange-chocolate cake layer.
Chocolate Fruit Cake instructions
- Prehead oven to 150°C Line cake tin with baking parchment strips.
- Place fruit, butter, sugar, honey, coffee liqueuer, orange zest & juice, mixed spice and cocoa into a large wide saucepan. Heat until reaching a gentle boil, stirring the mixture as the butter melts. Allow to simmer for 10 mins. Leave to cool for 30 mins..
- Add eggs, flour, ground almonds, baking powder & baking soda. Mix well with spatula until ingredients have combined..
- Mix in coffee liqueur.
- Carefully pour into tin. Do not overfill – rises quite a bit.Bake for 105 to 120 minutes or until the top of the cake is firm & has a shiny, sticky look. Inserting a sharp knife into the cake, should reveal a slightly undercooked middle!.
Add dry ingredients, sifted. with water. This delicious chocolate fruit cake is gluten free, dairy free, refined sugar free and vegan. I'm pretty sure it's the healthiest Trinidad style black cake you will ever come across! Try Chocolate Fruit Cake for a change from the traditional plum cake or fruit cake. Sieve flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon powder, clove powder and nutmeg powder.
