Delicious and easy boiled fruit cake
Easy and delicious, the most difficult issue with this cake is trying not to devour it in one go!
Servings: 12 people
Calories:
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Alter quantities (metric only) 12 people
Here's what you'll need...
- heavy bottomed saucepan
Ingredients you'll need...
Stage 1 ingredients
- 100 g unsalted butter
- 150 g dark brown sugar granulated
- 400 g mixed dried fruit
- 1½ teaspoon mixed spice
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 8 fl oz cold water
Stage 2 ingredients
- 100 g self raising flour
- 100 g plain flour
- ½ teaspoon fine salt
- 2 medium eggs light beaten
- 1 tablespoon demerara sugar optional
Here's what we do...
Stage 1
- Check your fruit to ensure it is all separated and not stuck together in clumps.
- Put all stage 1 ingredients into your saucepan and heat gently until the butter has melted and sugar has dissolved.
- Bring to a boil and then simmer gently for 1 minute.
- Leave to cool.
Stage 2
- Heat your oven to 160°C/140°C fan/Gas mark 3
- Grease your baking tin with butter and line the base with greaseproof paper.
- Sift the flours and salt together.
- Add half of the beaten eggs and half of the flour mixture to the stage 1 ingredients and fold in with a wooden spoon.
- Add the rest of the eggs and flour and fold in until fully incorporated, do not over mix but do ensure there are no pockets of flour remaining.
- Pour the mixture into your cake tin and gently level out.
- Sprinkle the demerara sugar over evenly over the top.
- Bake for 1 hour and 20 minute, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
- Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before removing and cooling on a cooling rack.