{"id":308,"date":"2016-11-06T15:59:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T22:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olivereats.ca\/?p=308"},"modified":"2016-12-11T10:52:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T17:52:46","slug":"amaretto-fruit-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/2016\/11\/06\/amaretto-fruit-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Amaretto Fruit Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(1 day lead prep required)<\/p>\n<p>(1 to 1 1\/2 hours at 275F)<\/p>\n<p>Makes 2 loafs, need 2 bread loaf pans<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode-ingredients\"><h3>Ingredients<\/h3><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">2 cup (450 g) candied red cherries, (tip..don&#8217;t buy the red \/ green mix.\u00a0 The colors mingle.)<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 cup (225 g) candied green cherries<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">2 cup (450 g) candied Glace&#8217; Mix (1\/4&#8243; bits of mixed colors)<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1\/2 c. Amarretto or Grand Marnier or Cointreau liquor<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1\/2 c. Brandy<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1\/2 tsp almond flavouring<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1\/2 c butter, very soft<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1\/2 c Crisco vegetable shortening, very soft<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">3\/4 c sugar<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">4 eggs<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">2 1\/2 c flour<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 c of liquor (see above)<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1\/4 c milk<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">2 containers of almond paste (usually in the bakery area by the Christmas cakes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"shortcode-directions instructions\"><h3>Directions<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Put fruit , almond flavouring, 1\/2 c. liquor, and 1\/2 c. brandy into a glass bowl and mix. Cover and leave minimum over night or up to 1 week.<\/li>\n<li>Line loaf pans with parchment paper.<\/li>\n<li>Pre-heat oven to 275F<\/li>\n<li>Cream butter and shortening.<\/li>\n<li>Gradually beat in sugar and eggs.<\/li>\n<li>Add 3\/4 cup flour and mix.<\/li>\n<li>Add 1\/2 c of liquor and mix.<\/li>\n<li>Add 3\/4 cup of flour and mix.<\/li>\n<li>Add 1\/2 c\u00a0 liquor and mix.<\/li>\n<li>Add 1 c flour and mix.<\/li>\n<li>Add milk and mix.<\/li>\n<li>Toss fruit with 1\/2 c of flour to coat.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t over mix.<\/li>\n<li>Fold in fruit mixture until just combined.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t over mix.<\/li>\n<li>Turn into pans and push into corners.\u00a0 Smooth top.<\/li>\n<li>Bake in centre of oven until cake tester comes out clean.<\/li>\n<li>Cool in pans\u00a0 for 15 \u2013 20 min.<\/li>\n<li>While loaves are still warm to touch&#8230;not hot, otherwise almond paste will melt &#8230;roll out almond paste with rolling pin using icing sugar to stop sticking to counter top or pastry cloth.\u00a0 Place on warm loaves and press to adhere to cake.\u00a0 Trim excess with sharp knife as necessary.<\/li>\n<li>When cool, wrap in plastic and either freeze or store in fridge.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><\/div>\n<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThanks to Chatelaine Magazine for the recipe!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(1 day lead prep required) (1 to 1 1\/2 hours at 275F) Makes 2 loafs, need 2 bread loaf pans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,46,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cake","category-christmas","category-dessert"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7VfK8-4Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}