Christmas Cake Recipe With Rum. We just made this recipe at thanksgiving. Turns out the original recipe only calls for a tablespoon of rum, but ashley soaked the fruit overnight and used ‘about a quarter of a bottle’ (about ¾ cup).
In a large bowl, whisk together cake mix and pudding mix. Place half the soaked fruit in a food processor and blend to a thick purée. Put all of the dried fruit and the stem ginger in a bowl, then pour over the rum and port.
Boil for 4 to 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
Place the cake mix, eggs, 1/3 cup of rum, 1/2 cup of water, and the vegetable oil into a large bowl. The christmas cake does benefit from long soaking of the fruit. Recipe notes for christmas fruit cake with rum *mixed peel is skins and peels of various fruits like oranges, lemons etc. Tsp mixed with 2 tbsp water).