Soft Icing For Fruitcake

It s filled with nuts spices and is topped with a flavorful cream cheese icing that s a show stopper.

Soft icing for fruitcake.

And we re back with day 11 of the 12 days of christmas cookies. Topped with a brandy cream cheese frosting these little cookies are irresistible. I take a speedy approach. Beat the butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy.

In a food processor whizz the almonds with the flour until the mix resembles crumbs. This easy fruit cake recipe is just like what you grew up eating. Make the royal icing recipe and then spread it over the marzipan covered cake with a flat palette knife in either a smooth layer or swirled to make little peaks all over the surface of the cake. Royal icing can also be used to simply pipe decorative elements on the cake such as swirls swags and snowflakes.

Apply the royal icing. It s so simple to make and you ll feel like a kid again visiting grandma when you bite into it. Use a spatula to clean around the edges of the bowl every so often as you whisk. Scrape into the tin level the surface and bake for 1 hr 15 mins until a skewer poked in comes out clean.

Just microwave the dried fruit with juice and or brandy then stand for 1 hour to soak up the liquid. And here s how the making part goes down. Scoop the frosting onto the top of the cake and spread it around with a flat edged knife swirling as you go to create a snowy effect see knowhow. Beat in the eggs one by one then fold in the flour and almonds dried fruit and brandy.

Fruitcake cookies are chewy sugar cookies stuffed full of candied fruits raisins and toasted pecans for a unique twist on the classic christmas fruitcake.