A heavy, aromatic, very healthy and delicious cupcake with dried fruits is a great addition to tea or coffee. It is especially good in the cold season, when the body needs vitamins and really wants sweets. A recipe for a cupcake with dried fruits usually involves a small amount of dough and a lot of dried fruits and nuts. It is these proportions that help to achieve density and saturation.
Very fragrant cupcake with dried fruits.
After baking, it is recommended to leave this cake for a few days so that the dough is saturated with the aroma of dried fruits.
Ingredients:
- 200 g of butter.
- Four small eggs.
- 150 g of brown sugar.
- 300 g of premium flour.
- 250 ml of dark rum.
- Half a teaspoon of baking powder.
- 100 g candied cherries.
- 200 g of raisins.
- 200 g of various candied fruits.
- Apricot confiture and cherry for decoration.
Making cupcake
To bake a simple cake with dried fruits, you first need to wash the raisins, transfer it to a deep bowl and pour 150 ml of rum there. Let it brew for at least two hours. By this time, warm the oven to 250 ° C. Beat butter with sugar for about 5 minutes, add the same egg there and each time continue to beat for at least 2 minutes after adding. Sift baking powder and flour, add to the dough, mix with a spoon or spatula until smooth. Strain the raisins from rum, dry so that it is not wet. Add raisins and other dried fruits to the dough and mix from the bottom up. Put the dough into shape.
You do not need to lubricate the silicone cake pan with butter, but if it is metal or glass, you need to make a "French shirt", that is, spread it with butter and a little powder with flour. Lower the oven temperature to 180 ° C and bake it for one hour. It is better to cover it a little with foil so that the top does not burn. Take the finished cupcake out of the oven, let it rest for about five minutes, and then transfer it to the grate. Soak the rum, which is left from the raisins, and let cool. Lubricate the finished cupcake with confiture and decorate with cherries. If you want to keep it for a long time, then place it in a container or wrap in cling film.
Cupcake with dried fruits and nuts.
This cupcake has a lot of dried fruits and a little dough, which is necessary only to combine dried fruits into a pie.
You will need:
- Eggs - three pieces.
- Three quarters of a cup of premium flour.
- Three quarters of a cup of plain white sugar.
- Bag of baking powder.
- Vanilla Sugar - One sachet.
- Four teaspoons of soda.
- Half a teaspoon of salt.
- Nuts, dried fruits and candied fruits - five glasses.
Cooking!
A similar recipe for a cake with dried fruits makes it possible to experiment. What dried fruits can I take? For example, apricot, dried figs, prunes, walnuts. The amount of nuts directly affects the taste of the cake. You can cut them, you can add the whole. We mix soda, flour, vanillin, salt and baking powder together. Add dried fruits to this dry mixture. All mix well. Beat sugar with eggs separately and pour this mixture into dried fruits. Mix everything well. We spread the finished dough in a mold pre-greased and sprinkled with flour or breadcrumbs. You can also cover it with parchment. Bake in the oven, heated to 150 ° C, about 70 minutes. Cover the top with foil so that it does not burn out. Cool the prepared cupcake a little right in the form, and then put it on the dish. Sprinkle a little sugar powder.
Curd cake with dried apricots
12 cupcakes are obtained from this amount of ingredients.
Ingredients:
- Butter - 100 g.
- Five percent cottage cheese - 125 g.
- 80 g of sugar.
- One egg.
- 5 g of baking powder.
- 130 g of flour.
- 50 g dried apricots.
Pour dried apricots with boiling water and leave for half an hour. Then it needs to be cut into small pieces, squeezed and dried. Melt the butter. Beat the egg with sugar until fluffy and add the baking powder. Put cottage cheese and butter in the same mixture. All this is mixed with a mixer, add flour and dried apricots and mix again. The dough will be very thick. We lay out the dough on paper molds. Since it does not rise very much during baking due to the increased density, it is possible to lay out two-thirds of the mold. We bake cottage cheese muffins with dried fruits until golden brown.
Christmas German Cupcake
You will need:
- A pound of flour (a little more may be needed).
- One and a half bags of baking powder.
- Sugar - 250 g.
- Cottage cheese - 250 g + 2 tablespoons of sour cream.
- Butter - 250 g.
- Chopped almonds - 200 g.
- Raisins + 200 ml of rum.
- Candied lemon and orange - 50 g each
- Any dried fruit - 50 g.
- Eggs are two.
- One lemon for juice and zest.
- 100 g butter
- Powdered sugar for decoration.
Cake making process
Beat softened butter with sugar, add eggs and continue to beat. Add cottage cheese, a tablespoon of vanilla sugar, juice and lemon zest and continue to whisk. We mix the flour with baking powder, sift it into the mass that we prepared earlier, and knead the dough. In the finished dough, add almonds, candied fruit with dried fruits and at the very end - raisins, which need to be a little sprinkled with flour. We divide the dough into two parts, form two oval cupcakes in the form of loaves. We bake for about an hour at a temperature of 180 ° C. Lubricate warm cupcakes with melted butter, allow to cool, sprinkle with a layer of icing sugar on top, wrap in parchment or foil and leave for three weeks in a cool place so that they mature and become soft and fragrant.
Raisin cupcake
This is a very simple recipe for a cupcake with dried fruits, but the baking itself is fragrant and tender. You will need:
- 250 g of flour.
- 150 g of dark rum.
- 165 g butter.
- 165 g of sugar.
- One and a half teaspoons of vanilla sugar.
- A teaspoon of baking powder.
- Three eggs.
In a large deep bowl with a mixer, beat softened butter, eggs and sugar. It is best to grind the butter with sugar until the crystals disappear, and then add the eggs. If you take homemade eggs, this cupcake will turn out to be a beautiful golden color. Add vanilla sugar to this mass. Vanilla simple is better not to use, as it gives a bitter taste. Pour raisins with boiling water and let it brew for about 5 minutes. Then we filter it through a colander and rinse with cold water. Dry it with a towel. Add dry raisins to the finished dough and mix well. Optionally, you can add orange or lemon zest, nuts or other dried fruits.
Sift flour, add baking powder and pour into the dough. Since it turns out to be thick, a baking powder or vinegar slaked with vinegar is necessary for the cake to rise. Knead the dough with a spoon very carefully so that the raisins are evenly distributed. The mold can be greased with oil and sprinkled with flour or covered with parchment and put the dough in it. Bake a cupcake with raisins in the oven, heated to 170 ° C, from one to one and a half hours. It should be well cooked and be sure to crack in the middle. To make a cake with raisins in the oven crack in the right place, you can make a knife in the middle of the furrow. Delicate inside and covered with a fragrant crust on the outside, it will give you pleasure.
Cupcake with Dried Fruits and Cranberries
Ingredients:
- 125 g of granulated sugar.
- 125 g butter.
- Eggs - three pieces.
- Flour - 190 g.
- A teaspoon of baking powder.
- A pinch of salt.
- Zest of one orange.
- 50 g of raisins.
- Dried cranberries - 50 g.
- Dried apricots - 50 g.
- Rum or brandy - two tablespoons.
- 50 g of any nuts.
Step cooking
All products in this recipe for dried fruit cake should not be cold, at room temperature. You can use other dried fruits: prunes, dates. But the dried apricots, raisins and dried cranberries combine well with each other, as they are different in color and taste, which will give the cake a pleasant taste and an appetizing look. To make it more fragrant, we add orange zest and a little cognac. Dried fruits can be prepared in advance. If they are quite dry, then you need to soak them for 10 minutes to swell in hot water. After this, drain the water, squeeze out the moisture. Cut dried apricots into small cubes. Pour all dried fruits with alcohol, mix and cover. We wash the orange with hot water. Remove the zest from it and add a tablespoon of granulated sugar. Grind. So orange zest will give more taste and aroma.
We beat the softened butter with sugar. Add one egg each, after each addition mix again. Sift flour in advance with a pinch of salt, baking powder and add in parts to this butter-egg mixture. A couple of tablespoons of flour should be left for dried fruits. In the remaining flour, we transfer dried fruits soaked in alcohol. Mix everything. What is it for? This is how dried fruits are evenly distributed in the dough and will not settle down on the cake. Add chopped nuts. Pour this nut-fruit mass into the dough and mix with a spoon.
In the oven preheated to 180 ° C, put the form with the dough and bake for 50 minutes. We check, as usual, with a skewer or a toothpick. Do not immediately take out the finished cupcake, let it cool right in the form for about half an hour. Then you can take it out, sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve.