Mincemeat Fruitcake Cookies Food

QUICK FRUITCAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Butter cake pans, and line with wax paper. Butter the wax paper.
• Sift the flour with the baking soda.
• In a large bowl, combine eggs, mincemeat, condensed milk, fruit, and nuts. Fold in dry ingredients. Pour into prepared pans.
• Bake for 2 hours, or until center springs back and top is golden brown. Cool. Turn cakes out onto wire rack; remove wax paper.

MARY BERRY'S MINCEMEAT LOAF CAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 180C/160Fan/350F.
• Grease and line 2 1lb (450g) loaf tins.
• Simply mix all the ingredients except for the blanched almonds together until they are well incorporated.
• Spoon the mixture into your loaf tins. Stud with the blanched almonds/halved cherries.
• Bake for 1 hour if using 1lb loaf tins or 35-40 minutes for mini loaf tins or until the cakes are shrinking from the sides, risen and golden and a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.

HOLIDAY FRUITCAKE (FRUIT CAKE)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Grease and flour a 10-inch bundt pan.
• Combine flour and baking soda; set aside.
• In a large bowl combine mincemeat and sweetened condensed milk. Stir in beaten eggs then the fruit and walnuts. Add the flour/baking soda mixture and stir until combined.
• Spoon batter into the prepared bundt pan and bake approximately 1 hour 20 minutes or until test in middle of cake comes out clean. (I cook to 1 hour 10 minutes then start testing every 10 minutes until cake tests for doneness. If it's over baked it will be dry, otherwise the cake will come out perfectly moist. Be diligent with your testing.).
• Cool 15 minutes. Turn out of pan onto a wire rack. Cool completely. Cake may be cut into individual portions and wrapped in foil and frozen.
• To make in loaf pans, spoon 3/4 full. Bake 300 degrees for 1 hour or until test in middle of cake comes out clean.

MINCEMEAT MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400F.
• Stir together flours, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.
• In a small bowl mix together buttermilk, melted butter and egg. Add wet ingredients to the dry mixture and stir until everything is moist.
• Fold in mincemeat and pecans, until evenly incorporated.
• Fill a greased muffin tin ¾ full with batter. Bake 15-20 minutes, until golden and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Let cool in the pan for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to serve or cool completely.

MAGIC FRUITCAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan. Line greased pan with parchment paper and coat paper with non-stick spray.
• In a saucepan, combine crumbled mincemeat and water. Bring to a boil and cook, stirring, for 1 minute. remove from heat and allow to cool.
• Stir in pecans, candied fruit, sweetened condensed milk, and egg. Stir in flour and baking soda until just blended. Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 90 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool.

MINCEMEAT LOAF

Steps:

• Beat the eggs, sugar and butter together.
• Stir in the milk and mincemeat.
• Combine the next 4 ingredients together and whisk.
• Pour it all at once into the liquid ingredients and stir completely. Pour into a well greased loaf pan.
• Bake at 350 degree for 50-60 minutes, until the loaf tests done.
• Remove and cool for 10 minutes, then remove the loaf from the pan and continue cooling on a wire cooling rack.
• Combine glaze ingredients and drizzle over the loaf once it's completely cooled.

MINCEMEAT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and butter a deep springform 18cm/7in cake tin.
• Place the flour, sugar and butter in a food mixer with the milk, mincemeat, eggs and lemon zest. Add a pinch of salt and mix on a low speed for a couple of minutes until thoroughly combined. Alternatively, mix with a wooden spoon. Tip into the prepared tin and bake for 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, mix the topping ingredients together in a bowl. Remove the cake and carefully sprinkle the crumble over the top with your fingers. Do it little by little, so that it does not sink into the cake. Return to the oven and continue to bake for a further 50 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the midlle comes out clean (80 minutes baking altogether). Cover loosely with foil for the last 10 minutes or so to prevent burning.
• Remove to a wire rack. Leave to cool for about 30 minutes before carefully removing the sides of the tin. Allow to cool completely and remove base if serving cold for tea, or eat barely warm if serving as pudding.

MINCEMEAT FRUITCAKE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F, & lightly coat baking sheet with cooking spray.
• In large bowl, beat oil & sugar until light.
• Beat in egg & almond extract until smooth.
• Stir in mincemeat.
• In medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder & salt.
• Beat into egg mixture until blended.
• Stir in cherries.
• Drop by rounded teasoonfuls onto parchment paper lined baking sheets.
• Bake 12-14 minutes, or until lightly brown & firm.
• Cool on wire rack.