Soaking Dry Fruits for Christmas Cake | How to Soak Dry fruits for Christmas fruit cake

Learn how to soak Dry fruits for Christmas Fruit Cake

Prep Time 15

Total Time 15

Servings grams

Author Narmadha

Take all dried fruits required for soaking. I used black raisins, sultanas, dates, tutti frutti, figs and cherries.
Chop them evenly and keep it ready.
Make fresh orange juice from 4-5 oranges. Add sugar to it.
Take the chopped fruits in a bowl.
Pour orange juice over it to cover.
Mix everything together.
Store in clean air tight or glass container in fridge.
Every 2-3 days shake the bottle.
Use them as required in your recipe

Dry fruits can be soaked upto 1-2 years in alcohol.

If you are using fresh homemade orange juice, use it within 1 week.

If you use tetra pack juices, it can be kept for 2-3 weeks as it contains some preservatives.

I added sugar while preparing my orange juice.

You can add some mixed spice powder while soaking. I always prefer to use it while baking the cake.

You can soak in Rum, brandy or whisky for alcoholic options and orange juice, apple juice, grape juice or tea extract for non alcoholic option.

You can add spices like clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, cardamom and prepare tea extract and use it for soaking the dry fruits.

I used raisins, figs, sultanas, tutti fruti, cherries and dates

You can also use apricots, candies orange peels, candied lemon peels, candies ginger peels, plums, cranberries, currants, pruns etc.

I use only fruits for soaking and nuts will be added directly while making the cake.

Nuts will lose its crunchiness when soaked for longer time.

Every 2-3 days, shake the bottle in fridge and add more juice/alcohol if required.