Saturday, 17 January 2015

Tokamak Booze Bunt ( pre soak fruit cake)




You will need a Bunt tin if using , there are lots of designs but you can make this mix in cake tins if you like I would half the mix and use an 8" cake tin lined at the base and use the same temperatures and baking times.
The dried fruit listed should be soaked in warm water with a teabag and your booze and covered with cling film ,the liquid in this bowl should only just cover the fruit in the bowl and leave for a few hours before using, over night is best if you can you will taste the difference in juicy boozy fruit in the cake if you do.
6 oz of sultanas,
6 oz of dried cranberries,
10 oz fine sugar,
10 oz marg,
10 oz self raising flour,
2.5 tsp baking powder,
5 large eggs,
Booze of your choice....

Now if your using a bunt tin butter it and flour it well, if you don't you won't get your cake out nicely,  pre heat the oven to 170 C and it needs to be a middle shelf so make sure you have space.
 It's an easy all in one method so all in the bowl except the soaking fruit and mix well, it's better with a mixer to get air into the mix, then stir in by hand your fruit and add the soaking liquid( the booze)
 Add this liquid a bit at a time stop if the mixture gets too slack stop adding , the mixture should not pour.
 Bake for 45 mins and test with a skewer, bunt tin users should now test there shapes in the tin, ie prod all around your tin with the skewer , lots of angles means different bake times so be careful , the round tin I used was straight forward and needed only another 10 mins baking however the xmas trees needed  another 20! For a standard cake tin it should be all good at 45 mins.
 Now to ice I mixed lemon juice with icing sugar until it was loose but still white and drizzled, then decorated with sugar balls on the icing.
 It's called a Tokamak cake because I made it for my friends and posted it on Facebook,( the first picture) and my pals in America instantly named it "tokamak", which I googled and it means..." A magnetic field device that draws energy and is this shape" , he said it had a draw on him and it would give him energy lol, so it was named!

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