Fresh Wedding Fruit Cake

This fruit cake contains a ton of dried fruit.

Fresh wedding fruit cake.

Fruit cakes made solely from dried fruit will keep for several weeks and up to a month. Place cake on top and heat until the liquor begins to simmer. Sugar roses don t have anything on these straight from the field decorations. For this recipe.

Just follow these simple steps. The actual cake was baked in march giving the cake two months to mature and plenty of time to work on the intricate design. Make your own wedding cake with our step by step recipe. Tropical fruit wedding cake.

Store a fruit cake in a cool dry place away from sunlight wrapped well in parchment or greaseproof paper and foil. Using a skewer poke numerous holes into all sides of the cake pushing the skewer all the way through to the other side. The great thing about making a fruit cake is that it can be made well in advance of the big day. Cover the alcohol soaked fruitcake in powdered sugar then in plastic and then in the airtight container.

When it comes to serving the cake some royals don t actually serve the cake during the wedding reception. It s easier than you think and the best part is the fruit cake can be stored for weeks before you re ready to cover it with rolled fondant icing and more of your wedding cake decorating ideas a day or so before the wedding day. To cut the sweetness and add amazing flavor we ll soak the dried fruit mixture in dark rum the day before baking. Make healthy choice with fresh fruit cake which gives fantastic look.

Once the cake is ready and the wedding approaches the top tiers of the cake are actually saved and preserved. Then place in an airtight container. This recipe uses a wide variety of tart and sweeter dried fruit. Fruit cake recipes have been around for years and the most traditional fruit cake recipe is the wedding fruit cake.

Later to store a fruit cake for longer than one year. These yellow cake layers are brushed with rum syrup and filled with passion fruit curd and rum and vanilla bean buttercream while the top of each tier is spread with more passion fruit curd. Add 1 2 cup alcohol such as brandy cognac or rum to a large saucepan with a bit of orange zest. Hibiscus flowers lychees coconut mini pineapple and bananas and tamarillo crown the cake.

As fresh as a southern spring these fruit and berry bedecked wedding cakes celebrate the abundance of the changing seasons. Golden raisins dark raisins figs prunes cherries apricots and peaches.