Fruit cake

Pastry recipe

For 20 cakes, muffin type, 6 cm diameter

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Fruit cake
Jean-Christophe Duc

Jean-Christophe Duc

Pastry Chef, Technical adviser Les vergers Boiron
Jean-Christophe Duc is a Compagnon du Tour de France and has a European Master’s degree in pastry making. He is a native of the French region of the Bresse in Burgundy and lived his youth between t...
  1. Plain cake

    Ingredients

    • Frozen concentrated preparation : Mandarin orange - 30g
    • Almond paste - 40g
    • Egg - 150g
    • Butter - 175g
    • Icing sugar - 185g
    • Starch - 50g
    • Flour - 150g
    • Chemical yeast - 3g

    In a mixer fitted with a flat beater, mix the raw almond paste and icing sugar with the butter and concentrated preparation until smooth. Add gradually the eggs. Add the sifted flour, starch and baking powder.

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    Frozen concentrated preparation
  2. Clementine jelly

    Ingredients

    • Frozen fruit purée 100% : PGI Corsican Clementine - 385g
    • Sugar - 100g
    • Pectin 325 NH 95 - 8g
    • Locust bean gum - 1g
    • Alginate - 5g

    Heat the purée. At 40°C, add the sugar-pectine-locust bean gum-alginate mixture. Bring to 85°C. Pour into 4-cm half-sphere shaped silicon moulds. Leave to cool.

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  3. Assembly

    Pipe the batter into baking cups until 1/3 full. Insert the jelly. Slightly cover with cake batter, do not exceed 2/3 of the capacity. Bake at 170°C for 15-20 minutes with the oven door open.

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