Boiled Fruit Cake
boiled fruit cake recipe easy and quick, made from dried mixed fruit
Servings: 8
Equipment
- 1 large (2lb/900 g) loaf tin, lined with a liner or baking paper or 2 smaller (1lb/450 g) loaf tins
- 1 heavy based large saucepan
Ingredients
- 700 g dried mixed fruit either plain or soaked in brandy is fine, if the mix doesn't include glace cherries you can replace 50 g of the total with cherries
- 225 g butter
- 225 g caster sugar
- 225 ml water
- 1 level teaspoon ground mixed spice
- 1 level teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 level teaspoon baking powder
- 225 g plain flour
- 2 large eggs
Instructions
- Place the fruit, butter, sugar, water and spices in the saucepan and heat over a high heat, stirring occasionally until the mixture boils. Boil for about 10 minutes until the fruit has plumped up and the liquid has thickened. Remove from the heat and allow to cool completely.
- Once the mixture has cooled, preheat the oven to 140C (fan). Add the remaining ingredients to the boiled fruit - baking powder, flour and eggs and stir gently, keep stirring until everything is completely combined.
- Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake until cooked - this will take 1 - 1 1/2 hours or more. The cake is ready when the top is firm - if you press gently in the centre the cake will spring back again and not leave an imprint and you can check with a skewer inserted in the centre - if the skewer comes out clean with no cake mixture stuck to it the cake is ready.