Boiled fruit cake
10/1/2012
This is my mother's portable cake - perfect for a sweet treat when you're camping or at home in a sealed container on the bench
Ingredients
| 500 g | Dried fruit |
| 2 cups | Water |
| 250 g | Butter |
| 1½ cups | Sugar |
| 1 | Orange |
| 1 optional | Banana |
| 3 | Eggs |
| 1 tsp | Vanilla |
| 2½ cups | High grade flour |
| 1 tsp | Baking powder |
| 1 to drizzle | Brandy |
| 1 | Lemon |
Directions
- Place dried fruit in a saucepan with cold water or cold tea. Bring to the boil and keep boiling gently with the lid on for five minutes. Pour off the liquid.
- Chop up butter and add to the pan. once this has melted, add sugar and blend it in slowly so the sugar dissolves. Leave to cool.
- Preheat oven to 180 degC and grease and line a 24cm cake tin.
- Add citrus(1 tsp grated orange zest and ½ tsp grated lemon zest) peel and mashed banana, if using, to mix.
- When cooled, add eggs(at room temperature, lightly beaten) then fold in vanilla, flour and baking powder(heaped tsp). Don't over-mix.
- Pour the mixture into a tin and bake for 60 to 90 minutes. Check the cake after 1 hour in the oven. When the skewer comes out cleanly from the cake, it's cooked.
- Drizzle a little brandy over the warm cake after it comes out of the oven and before removing it from the tin.
Comments
Vyvyan
added 166 days agoThis is one of my favourite cakes, so easy, and stays moist. Try to resist the temptation to cut into it while still warm though.
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