Best Bourbon Fruit Cake Recipe

Refrigerate overnight and saturate again with bourbon.

Best bourbon fruit cake recipe. Brush the warm cake with rum or brandy. Combine fruit and nuts. May take longer than 5 hours. Stir 1 3 cup bourbon into milk in measuring cup.

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. Soak all fruits and nuts in 1 cup kentucky bourbon for 24 hours. Sift all dry ingredients and stir until well combined. Wrap cake with bourbon soaked cheesecloth then with plastic wrap.

Line tube pan with waxed paper and pour cake batter into pan. Stir and then cover tightly. Test cake with wooden pick. Combine the orange juice and the 2 3 cup bourbon.

Put flour and spices in a large paper bag add fruit and shake well and add to batter. Set the cake on a rack to cool. Let the fruit marinate in a cool place for 1 full day or at least 20 hours. It s a dense cake that has a strong bourbon flavor mellowed with the addition of buttery chopped pecans.

Cream softened butter and sugar using an electric mixer until well combined. In a large bowl combine the candied fruits raisins currants and bourbon. Add beaten egg whites last. Beat in eggs and vanilla.

Fruitcake can remain in its pan for storage if desired. Place fruit and nuts in a large bowl and toss well with the 1 2 cup all purpose flour. Make a batter with the sugar applesauce butter molasses and egg yolks. The cakes are done when a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean.

Remove from oven and allow to cool for 15 minutes before turning out. Preheat oven to 300. When almost cool brush sides and inside hole heavily with bourbon. Be sure to get a good bourbon because that s where all the flavor is going to come from.

Remove the cakes from the oven. In another bowl cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Place fruit and liquid in a non reactive pot with the sugar butter apple juice and spices. Grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan and line the bottom with greased waxed paper.

On the first day combine the candied orange peel candied citron candied pineapple red and green candied cherries currants raisins walnuts and almonds. This southern bourbon cake certainly has that. Pour over the fruit and nuts. Add the melted chocolate walnuts and the marinated fruit along with the bourbon.

Pour the batter into the pan. Then more bourbon is poured over the warm cake and finally a bourbon butter glaze is drizzled over the top. Bring mixture to a boil stirring often then reduce heat and simmer for 5 to 10 minutes. Add eggs one at a time beating after each addition and set aside.

Beat in the eggs on at a time.