Help me with my cake!

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Hi everyone! I’m wanting to do cakes this year; I did them last year but did non-alcoholic and soaked the fruit 50/50 with tea and orange juice and it was lovely, but this year I’m thinking of doing 50/50 orange and alcohol, so looking for advice.

How far in advance could I make this? (Last years was literally 2 weeks in advance due to poor shelf-life with it being no alcohol)

If I soaked the fruit in alcohol/juice, could I just feed it with juice? (Last years was fed with tea now and again - not too often cause otherwise it would go soggy)

I’m sure I had another question, but it’s been a long day and I can’t remember 😁

Thanks in advance!

Why not use 100% alcohol like the recipes?

I made my cake last weekend. The recipe I use has 2tbsp of both brandy and orange juice.

Would you mind sharing it?

Personal reasons

As requested:

Comment to the above. In fan oven it seems to take 15 mins less to cook.

Perfect! Thank you so much

I’ve already made my cake too. It had brandy in it and I’m sloshing the bottle over the cake every 10 days give or take

No problem. BTW, I have never fed my cakes, just wrap them in tinfoil, so no extra alcohol gets added.