Christmas cupcake with dried fruits

Fragrant, with dried fruits soaked in cognac! Christmas cupcake with dried fruits will fill the main holiday of the year with indescribable aromas of delicious homemade pastries. With a beautiful filling, sprinkled with powdered sugar, it will also decorate your festive table!

Snezhana

The author of the recipe

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Chicken eggs (C0)

Sugar

150

Butter

100

Wheat flour

120

Baking powder

Vanilla sugar

Dried Fruits

100

Walnuts

Cognac

Honey

Powdered sugar

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the recipe composition

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 6 % 5 g

Fats 23 % 18 g

Carbohydrates 70 % 54 g

384 kcal

GI: 2 / 17 / 81

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h

Step 1:
How to bake a Christmas cupcake with dried fruits? Prepare the necessary ingredients for the cupcake according to the list. Remove the butter and chicken eggs from the refrigerator in advance so that they are at room temperature and the butter becomes soft.
Step 2:
The standard set of dried fruits for this cake, as a rule, includes prunes, dried apricots and raisins. If desired, the composition can be changed. Rinse dried fruits well under running water, remove debris. Fill them in a bowl with hot water and leave for 15 minutes. Then drain the water. Cut the prunes and dried apricots into small pieces.
Step 3:
Put the dried fruits back in the bowl and pour a small amount of cognac or rum. Leave for a couple of hours to soak.
Step 4:
In addition to walnuts, you can also use any other (peanuts, almonds), it will turn out even tastier. Wash the nuts well, dry them in a microwave oven or in a dry frying pan and chop them with a blender or rolling pin.
Step 5:
Put the butter in a bowl. Cut it into cubes, add honey, add sugar and rub them with a mixer or a hand whisk until smooth.
Step 6:
Beat the chicken eggs into a bowl and beat the mixture again with a mixer until smooth.
Step 7:
Add a pinch of vanilla or a quarter teaspoon of vanilla sugar. Pour in the sifted flour combined with baking powder. Stir until a thick and smooth dough is obtained.
Step 8:
Put dried fruits with cognac, chopped nuts in a bowl with dough. Stir so that they spread evenly over the dough.
Step 9:
Cover the cake baking dish with parchment greased with butter. Transfer the dough to the mold. From the middle, the dough should be diluted to the sides, making a small groove so that after baking the cupcake does not rise much in the center and does not crack.
Step 10:
Preheat the oven to 170 degrees. Bake the cupcake for about 40 minutes. Determine the baking temperature and time according to your oven. Check readiness with a wooden toothpick, it should be dry at the exit. Let the cupcake cool in the mold.
Step 11:
Remove the Christmas cupcake from the oven and serve it to the table when it is completely cooled. Merry Christmas!

Christmas is a wonderful fairy–tale holiday full of miracles and pleasant surprises. Due to the established traditions, a cupcake with dried fruits and nuts has become an integral attribute of this holiday. The aroma of this baking, spreading through the house, already creates an atmosphere of celebration and good mood. And such a cupcake is baked quite simply, the main thing is to make the dough correctly and choose the right ingredients.

Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of ovens !

Be prepared for the fact that you may need more or less flour than indicated in the recipe. Focus not on the amount of flour, but on the desired consistency of the dough. To avoid mistakes, read about flour and its properties!