Christmas spicy cupcake with dried fruits, jam and honey

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   The weight of dried fruits and candied fruits is indicated already soaked in syrup. Recipe herehttps://1000.menu/cooking/41070-suxofrukty-i-cukaty-v-sirope-dlya-vypechki If dried fruits and candied fruits were soaked in pure alcohol, then the amount of sugar in the dough should be increased to 50 grams. A mixture of spices of any kind at will. I specified mine in the recipe. You can take absolutely any jam. I had apricot. All ingredients should be at room temperature.

2. Step 2:

   

   Add sugar to the softened butter and whisk until white.

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   Then I add an egg at ROOM TEMPERATURE and beat it to a tender, homogeneous, fluffy cream.

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   Then spices, salt, jam and honey. I mix everything well or beat it with a mixer.

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   Then sift all the flour and mix well.

6. Step 6:

   

   I add dried fruits, mix and this is the picture that should turn out. Even in its raw form, the flavors are simply divine ...

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   The size of the mold in which I will bake is 11*20. Lubricate with butter and lay with parchment paper.

9. Step 8:

   

   I spread the dough, level it so that there are no voids.

10. Step 9:

    

    I cover with foil that the top is not burnt, and the cake is well baked inside and I send it to the preheated oven to 140-150 degrees for 2-2.5 hours.

11. Step 10:

    

    My cupcake was baked for 2 hours and 10 minutes. 1 hour and 50 minutes baked under foil. While the cupcake is hot, you can lubricate it with any strong alcohol or syrup, but I had enough of everything in dried fruits. Or after cooling, you can cover the cupcake with protein glaze.

12. Step 11:

    

    I let it cool completely and take it out of the mold. The weight of the cake is 570 grams.

13. Step 12:

    

    I fall asleep well with powdered sugar and at this stage it can be wrapped in plastic wrap or parchment paper and put in the refrigerator for ripening.

14. Step 13:

    

    But I'll cut mine and show you what it's like inside. In my opinion, the cut is simply gorgeous. And soaked dried fruits give the dough a simply delicious taste and aroma. Do not be lazy and soak at least overnight. You ate one half right away :), and wrapped the other half in parchment and put it away.

15. Step 14:

    

    Today we tried the second half. It matured for 3 weeks. What can I say - it's worth it. Immediately after baking, the cupcake seemed to me quite sweet, dense, but after ripening it became somehow perfect. Firstly, it has become softer, the dried fruits are more tender, the sweetness has returned to normal. All tastes combined and it turned out just some kind of harmony. Spicy, fragrant spices have done their job. In general, it is really very, very tasty !!!