Traditional Christmas cake is very moist and delicate cake with mild spices and fully loaded with juicy dry fruit and nut. In fact the core ingredients of this cake are different dried fruit with nut & raisin. Flour & other ingredients are only used to bind these fruits together. The one and only trick is to keep the fruits moist and juicy before baking.
Soaking dried fruits for cake is best done 6-7 weeks before preparing the cake. But even if it’s too late; no problem! You can make a great Christmas cake by just soaking dried fruits for 30 minutes.
Step by step recipe for Christmas cake with dry fruit
1. Chop all your dried fruit in small pieces
2. Add them to an air tight glass jar
3. Squeezed orange juice mixed with a tablespoon of honey, for the soaking liquid.
4. Mix it well, close and refrigerate the jar.
Now your ingredients are ready to use in your Christmas cake. All you have to do is mix it with the cake ingredients and put it in a bowl and put it in the oven at 180 degrees Celsius. After preparation, you can decorate your cake by using dried fruits.
Source: Soaking Dried Fruit for cake