Some Tips In Preparing A Fruit Cake
Michalis 'BIG Mike' Kotzakolios

A fruit cake is a very popular holiday gift. With an exquisite flavor that makes it more than just an ordinary cake that can be purchased from any bakeshop, there is so much about this gift idea than meets the eye... or the taste buds to be more precise. This flavor is actually acquired from fruit juices, liquor and the taste of the fruit ingredients themselves. And though it is easy to assume that all one has to do is to jumble them up in a container and leave them for a while, such is not the case. There is an art behind the preparation of a fruit cake, one that many connoisseurs of the same believe is a preserved skill that has been handed down throughout many generations. After all, not everybody can create such a cake of a fine and unique taste.

Here are some general tips that will hopefully guide you in the preparation of a fruit cake.

* This cake is meant to be baked under a low temperature, around 300 degrees or lower. Such a process will take some time, but the purpose of this is to allow the fruits to shed off their liquid and their flavor naturally. Any temperature higher than the one prescribed will just dry the fruits really quick. Instead of acquiring the distinct flavor that is expected from this kind of cake, you'd have one that will seemingly be sprinkled with prunes instead.

* The fruits and the nuts aren't meant to be thrown into the pan immediately before baking. They should be soaked in fruit juices (the type of which depends on the flavor you wish to acquire) and liquor, at least the night before baking. Right before baking, the same fruits should be coated with flour so that they won't sink into the mix. The liquid that has accumulated in the basin will be used as coating for the cake, so don't throw it away.

* A fruit cake is a flexible concoction. You should be guided by the recipe, but you are not limited by the same. If an ingredient is prescribed but you don't have access to the same, never be afraid to improvise. Everything is instinctive, actually. Often, the substitute that is closest to the taste and make of the original should be used. For example, the recipe calls for the application of brandy, but you don't have one, you can use wine closest to the taste of the same.

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