Christmas Cake - Soak fruit in alcohol if feeding the cake anyway?

wont the alcohol evaporate when it cooks? or at-least I'd have thought so.

I guess you would still get the taste however, I need to start buying alcohol to cook with again, veges cooked in white wine taste so good :D
 
Gimpymoo said:
If you are making the cake now for example with time to feed it, any gains from soaking the fruit in booze before baking?

Thanks.
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When I did mine last year I soaked the fruit overnight.

followed this recipe:

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/buttered-rum-christmas-cake

and the rum I used (which is delicious) was red leg - the vanilla and ginger one!

iirc the soak is to stop the dried fruit absobing moisture from the cake mix itself during baking, could be wrong!
 
I always soak my fruit in alcohol for 24 hours before baking, never had anything but good comments from friends and family I've given the cakes to.

This years tipple is a bottle of Powers Irish Whiskey, last year I used Glengoyne 10 year single malt.

May have to try some spiced rum and see how that is, there's a Dead Man's Fingers on Amazon offer so may be an option.
 
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