GRANDMOTHER'S BEST FRUIT CAKE: The holiday's best heavy fruit cake recipe out there!

Professional Pastry Chef Lindsey Farr’s Nana helped out with this one, it’s a tutorial for a delicious brandy-soaked cake with nuts and dried fruits aka the best moist fruit cake recipe ever! This spiced fruit cake recipe is the best fruit cake packed full of nuts and dried fruits, and the method shown in this video makes for a super moist fruit cake for Christmas. Trust Nana to have the best fruit cake recipe!
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro to the Best Fruit Cake Recipe
01:09 Mix dry ingredients and mix-ins
06:26 Mix wet ingredients, in order, in stand mixer
08:33 Fold in dry ingredients
09:30 Put in pan and bake with water bath underneath
12:04 Cool and unmold
16:48 Soak and wrap with slice of apple
22:24 Let it sit for a month then re-soak
25:56 Wait a month and serve!
Ingredients:
2 cups All-purpose flour (248g)
½ teaspoon Baking powder
1 ½ teaspoons Kosher Salt
1 ½ teaspoons Cinnamon
1 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
3 ½ cups Pecans, chopped (385g)
1 ½ cups Candied pineapple, chopped (340.2 g) ¾ lb
2 cups Candied cherries (340.2g) ¾ lb
1 ½ cups Golden Raisins (226.80g) ½ lb
½ cup Butter, softened (113g)
2 ¼ cups Granulated Sugar (517.5g)
6 Eggs
1 ½ tablespoons Brandy, for the batter
2 tablespoons Honey, for brushing cake
1 cup Brandy, for soaking, optional (224g)
½ Apple, peeled & sliced, for storing, optional
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[@LouieLouie505]

Great video. Your running commentary made it for me. Extra credit for going the whole road and sacrificing a tea towel to the cause. I keep mine for this use only and it is used yearly. When I started baking over 50 years ago, fruitcake recipes almost always said something about “line your pan with brown paper and grease well.” Before plastic bags, brown paper bags were ubiquitous for shopping and used in numerous ways from gardening to Halloween costumes. Since parchment paper was not widely used, we cut paper bags for lining baking pans and these worked well for a heavy, sticky block of gold like holiday fruitcake.

[@ChefLindseyFarr]

Hi Louie! The sacrificial tea towel hehe! That makes sense about the paper bags. Hope you enjoy your fruit cake this year and have a beautiful holiday season!

[@pamelamanning99]

Thank you for sharing "kitchen reality", what we all deal with at home! Even though Christmas is just a month away ... I'm making this right now! Wishing you the very best of fortune with your baby's delivery.

[@ChefLindseyFarr]

Let me know how it goes! So happy you're trying it and thank you so much. 💜

[@pamelamanning99]

@@ChefLindseyFarr Made two, they were great!

[@ChefLindseyFarr]

@Pamela I'm so happy to hear it, thanks for coming back and commenting! :)

[@eddiewilson8119]

Thank you for sharing this recipe!and it's been a long time since I've had one,and it looks so moist and delicious 😋!

[@ChefLindseyFarr]

My pleasure 😊

[@lunchbox7762]

Amazing recipe

[@ChefLindseyFarr]

Thank you!!

[@acam2872]

Awesome !

[@ChefLindseyFarr]

Thanks!

[@rgarlinyc]

Looks delicious - Imma try this in a few weeks, thanks Chef LF! One question please - when you store the cake for a month each time, WHERE / HOW should you store store in? Thanks a lot!

[@ChefLindseyFarr]

Please do! Store alcohol soaked fruit cake well-wrapped in plastic wrap at room temperature for up to 6 months. After one month it will begin to dry out if not re-soaked. Once done soaking, store the fruitcake well-wrapped in plastic wrap in the refrigerator or freezer. Report back on how it goes, and enjoy!

[@rgarlinyc]

@@ChefLindseyFarr Thank you, very helpful.

[@ChefLindseyFarr]

You're very welcome! Can't wait to hear about it!@@rgarlinyc

[@margaretdillon5261]

I'm sorry to laugh, but I could almost hear you wondering how many questions you were going to get about that cutout. Thank you for this video, it was a kick. Oh, and those pound coffee cans were just that, tin coffee cans that had a pound of coffee in them and were saved to bake fruitcake in. I'm pretty sure I'm old enough to be your mom, and those were what MY grandmother used.

[@ChefLindseyFarr]

Aw thanks for taking the time to watch and comment!

[@davemeeks8109]

I'm currently in the process of making 20 fruitcakes for family members, half with booze half without. I've found that 4×6 loaf pans are working well.

[@davemeeks8109]

Best Ever CHRISTMAS FRUIT CAKE Recipe | Mortar and Pastry

[@ChefLindseyFarr]

Thanks for the tip! Happy baking!

[@donm6940]

Baby bump 🎊

[@ChefLindseyFarr]

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[@wilmareddy633]

Can I use tin pineapple chopped to piece. Will the cake last long

[@ChefLindseyFarr]

Hi! I would say that dried pineapple chopped would be better. The cake is already pretty moist, so adding more moisture from canned pineapple (even well drained) would be problematic. You can follow all the additional instructions in the blog post for storing the cake. If soaked with brandy, it will last at room temperature for several months. If not soaking, store it well wrapped in the freezer for the freshest results. ~Happy baking!

[@wilmareddy633]

@ChefLindseyFarr thank you 😊

[@ChefLindseyFarr]

@@wilmareddy633 You're very welcome! Be sure to report back! :)

[@marinaabad4995]

I think you should wear an apron.

[@ChefLindseyFarr]

I do sometimes, depends on the day. I like to wear whatever I want in my home kitchen :)