Fruit Cake

[food_techie]

Does anyone have a cheap recipe for stollen or panettone fruit cakes?

[woofgang]

if you google on "stollen recipe", there are loads..not sure about cheap though, if it contains all the fruit, butter and almond paste that it is supposed to.

[Robinia]

Cheat!  Stollen are BOGOF in Sainsbury's at the moment!

[k8tkoo]

Try www.allrecipes.com !

[food_techie]

Noddy, thanks for the excellent tip, but I was looking more for a recipe to make with my students, so I needed a rich fruit cake that was cheap to make from scratch. I also was hoping for a tried and tested recipe, rather than searching recipe sites. Thank you all for your ideas.

[Robinia]

Oops sorry food_techie!

Have found this which makes two stollen loaves so it works out pretty reasonably I would think -

http://www.uktvfood.co.uk/index.cfm/uktvfoodpreview/recipes.recipeitem/ID/5254.shtml 

 

Oh heck  - it's going to make the page wide!! 

[food_techie]

Thanks Noddy, I'll give it a go.

[cassimer]

I had to bake lots of fruit cake for a fete, and used tesco value mixed fruit.  Sounds fairly horrid, but was actually brilliant and would use for myself!

[Chappers]

It's not 100% relevant I know but for anyone that likes panettone, Tescos are doing one of the best panettones I've ever had and for only �8 for a kilo panettone! That is half the price of an equal quality one from a delicatessen! It has hazelnut sugar coating on the top, it is fantastic!