Pineapple Fruitcake – with a wealthy , cream cheese batter & soaked in brandy!

Pineapple Fruitcake. A moist wealthy fruitcake in a recipe measurement that makes as much as 3 small, loaf sized muffins, excellent for Vacation present giving. Made with a wealthy cream cheese batter and soaked with brandy.

Pineapple Fruitcake

Initially revealed Dec 2012.

Fruitcake lovers will delight on this pineapple fruitcake recipe that doesn’t require the cake to be made weeks prematurely like our Grandmas did.

In actual fact, a few days prematurely is all you will have for this cake to be excellent.

Contemporary, ripe, golden pineapple for moisture and a cream cheese batter for richness is the important thing to this straightforward recipe. Loads of brandy will get soaked in too, simply to make it further festive.

If you happen to select, the brandy is by no means essential to take pleasure in this lovely cake simply as it’s.

Pineapple Fruitcake prepared for the oven.

Measurement issues.

It is a very massive cake, which I first developed to suit an unlimited tube pan that I obtained as a present one Christmas.

Nevertheless,  you possibly can half the recipe for about an 8 inch spring kind pan or bundt pan.

I’ve discovered this recipe is sufficient for a big 10-12 inch springform pan or a big tube pan.

As well as, I additionally use 3 small disposable aluminum loaf pans, making them best for present giving. Typically,  like I do typically,  I take advantage of one 8 or 9 inch springform pan plus one small loaf pan.

Some fortunate buddy would be the recipient of the smaller loaf sized pineapple fruitcake.

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Brandied Pineapple Cream Cheese Fruitcake – a moist wealthy fruitcake in a recipe measurement that makes as much as 3 loaf sized muffins excellent for Vacation present giving.

Course:

Cake

Servings: 3 loaf sized fruitcakes

Creator: Barry C. Parsons

• 1
  cup
  water
• 1
  cup
  sultana raisins
• 1/4
  cup
  sugar
• 1
  cup
  currents
• 2
  cups
  recent golden pineapple
  diced small (about 1/4 inch)
• 2
  cups
  glace cherries
  reduce in quarters
• 2
  cups
  combined glace citrus peel or combined glace fruit
• 1 1/4
  cups
  butter
• 1 1/4
  cup
  sugar
• 2
  tbsp
  vanilla extract
• 8
  ounces
  cream cheese
  1 cup
• 6
  eggs
• 4
  cups
  flour
• 2
  tsp
  baking powder
• 1/2
  cup
  brandy

1. In a medium saucepan mix the water, raisins, 1/4 cup sugar and currants and simmer very gently for 20 minutes.

2. Cool fully. When cool, switch to a big bowl then add the pineapple, glace cherries and glace citrus peel. Combine collectively properly.

3. Cream collectively the butter 1 1/4 cups sugar, vanilla extract and cream cheese till gentle and fluffy.

4. Add the 6 eggs, separately, beating properly after every addition.

5. Sift collectively the flour and baking powder.

6. Fold about 2/3 of the dry components into the creamed combination. Fold within the fruit combination, adopted by the remaining dry components. Combine simply till the flour is included. Don’t over combine.

7. While you get the cake batter into the pan, you possibly can enhance the highest with glace pineapple rings or different glace fruits should you like.

8. Bake in a greased and floured tube pan or a 12 inch spring kind pan or about three loaf pans at 325 levels F for about an hour and a half or till toothpick inserted within the heart comes out clear.(one 10 inch springform pan plus one loaf pan can be used.) Baking instances might range on this recipe relying upon the quantity of moisture contained within the fruit combination. The loaf pans ought to take about an hour, bigger pans can take 1 1/2 hours or a bit extra. The toothpick check is your greatest indicator that the cake is baked so watch it fastidiously and proceed to check till totally baked. Due to the lengthy baking time, I normally buffer the warmth on the pan by wrapping the aspect and backside in a number of layers of heavy obligation aluminum foil. This helps the cake to bake extra evenly.

9. Let cool within the pan for at a few half hour then brush on the 1/4 cup brandy.

10. Flip onto a wire rack and brush the underside with one other 1/4 cup brandy. When fully cooled, use a picket skewer to pierce the cake a number of instances and brush your complete cake with one other cup of brandy. Instantly wrap the cake in a number of layers of plastic wrap and retailer it in a cool dry place for a few days a minimum of earlier than you propose to serve it.

11. Greatest saved in an hermetic container or cake tin.