Name: Venezuelan black cake or christmas cake - torta negra
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: En
Ingredients: 1/4 cup peeled almond; 1/4 cup hazelnut (peeled); 1/2 cup nuts; 1/4 cup orange (crystallized with sugar); 1/2 dried prunes - seedless; Chop all ingredients above very small; 1/3 cup of rum; 2/3 cup of black beer; 1/2 teaspoon of ground cloves; 1/2 teaspoon of ground Cinnamon; 1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg, grated; 1/4 teaspoon of fresh ginger, grated; 500 g 2 cups of the fruit mix prepared before; 175 g of salted butter, 12 scoops; butter to grease the cake pan; 1/2 teaspoon of salt; 1-2/3 cup of sugar; 5 eggs; 2 cups of flour; 1 teaspoon of baking powder; Everything at room temperature

Ingredients

For 1 lb (1/2 kg) of fruit mix, sufficient for one cake:

For the cake :

500 g 2 cups of the fruit mix prepared before
175 g of salted butter, 12 scoops
butter to grease the cake pan
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1-2/3 cup of sugar
5 eggs
2 cups of flour
1 teaspoon of baking powder
Everything at room temperature

Preparation

Preparation25 min

Cook time50 min

One or two weeks before at least prepare the fruits for the cake, mix together all the ingredients in a bowl. The among is sufficient for one cake.
Cover the bowl (airtight) and put it in the refrigerator until the day that you will prepare the cake.
For the cake :
Take out from the refrigerator the bowl with the fruit, around three (03) hours before of the cake preparation. keep it cover until it get room temperature.
Turn on the oven at 374 F.
In a round baking pan (25 cm diameter / 9.8 -in) and 8 cm deep (3 -in) . Grease the baking pan and sprinkler with flour. Set aside.
Place butter and salt in a large bowl of electrical mixer and beat until light in color and creamy consistency. Continue mixing and add sugar and continue beating for 5 more minutes. Add eggs, one by one, and beat it for 5 minutes again.
Sift together flour and baking powder. Set aside.
Finlay add the mix of flour and baking powder, one part of the flour and one part of the fruits, use a wooded spoon. One part of flour and one part of fruit. The process should end with flour. Mix all together very good.
Pour the cake mix in the greased and floured baking pan.
Bake the cake for 50 minutes or until you introduce a knife in the center of the cake and this come out clean. You may have to cover the cake at the end with wax paper to avoid to cook to much the top of the cake.
Remove the baking pan from the oven. Let it get cool for some minutes and while the cake still hot turn the cake on the cake plate or where you plan to display it. Decorate as you wish.