Recipe Review - 60 second fruit cake - Devil of a cookbook

[maddy]

Before making I thought there seemed lots of fruit to cake ratio.  I cut it down to 900g, and soaked in chocolate milk, using sultanas and craisins.



....wasn't a fan    I felt it was too dense with fruit, not enough cake.
I cooked longer than specified, but the middle of cake seemed a little soggy.
Won't make it again.

[Wonder]

That picture certainly doesn't make me want to try the recipe, way too much fruit.

[jakodai]

That picture certainly doesn't make me want to try the recipe, way too much fruit.

Same. May as well sit down with a bowl of sultanas!

[Amy :-)]

Oh urk... even your wonderful photography can't save that cake. Sorry Maddy.

[maddy]

That picture certainly doesn't make me want to try the recipe, way too much fruit.

Same. May as well sit down with a bowl of sultanas!

Exactly!

Oh urk... even your wonderful photography can't save that cake. Sorry Maddy.

LOL...I really don't like giving a negative review, but there's a lot of fruit involved.

[faffa_70]

I LOVE a fruit cake that is really dense with fruit (and nuts) but I think that is too much even for me 

[meganjane]

I thought that recipe sounded as if it wouldn't work too well. I like a cakey fruit cake.
Thanks for the review Maddy, sorry you wasted all that fruit. Perhaps you can make some rum balls out of it or something!

[cookie1]

Serve it with custard for sweets. I often do that if I have soggy fruit cake.

[Nikkit]

Maddy, my thoughts exactly. Darned easy cake to make, but too much fruit. (and I'm glad you took a photo - mine turned out the same.)
My hubby is a fruit-cake-aholic and even he hasn't touched this one 
I'm going to poke holes in the top of mine, drizzle in a bit (or a lot...depends how the bottle tilts! ) of brandy or something, let it soak for a while and then make some kind of fruit balls. It won't be a total loss that way. I will then pop them in the freezer and probably forget about them till the Christmas after next when they should be just perfect!

[judydawn]

This recipe is on here somewhere already so when I have time I will look for it and see if the quantities are the same.

[cecilia]

We had this cake at our Christmas in Winter cooking class today, served with a Brandy Custard - it's rich and easy to make.  Thanks, Tina.

[Calbel]

Wondering if anyone can tell me what temp to cook this cake on please.
I saw it at a Festive Season Cooking Demo.
Thank you

[judydawn]

150^oC for 1 hour 10 minutes Calbel in a 25cm cake tin.

[Wonder]

We also had this at the festive class and it didn't seem to have anywhere near the amount of fruit.minwasnt a huge fan but it was ok, although I'm not much of a fruit cake fan.

[Nikkit]

From memory I did end up making rum balls with my cake, and after topping them with a little chocolate and some red and green glace cherries, they really did look festive and went down really well.
But I won't make that recipe again, it wasn't good. There are nicer fruit cake recipes out there.