RICH FRUIT CAKE

I have just been asked by my aunt to make  a rich fruit cake for her wedding. I had never done it before but a friend of mine gave me this recipe. i tried it and the cake is marvelous. I am yet to decorate it ( will take about this in a few weeks' time). But if you are interested, check out the recipe below. it is pretty simple and straight forward.

Ingredients:

500g fruits soaked overnight in 125ml of brandy or water

2 ½ cups cake flour

2 ½ teaspoons baking powder

3 eggs

2 heaped tablespoons treacle

2 heaped tablespoons cocoa powder

1 cup old fashioned brown sugar

¼ teaspoon ground ginger

½ teaspoon cinnamon

½ teaspoon mixed spice

½ teaspoon nutmeg

1 teaspoon vanilla essence or almond essence

¼ teaspoon ground cloves

125g margarine

Method:

·         Preheat oven 130 degrees Celsius, line 20cm baking tray inside and outside.

·         Soak fruits for 24 hours

·         Cream margarine, sugar and treacle

·         Add eggs one at a time, putting flour in between until finished

·         Add the fruits

·         Bake for about 2 ½ hours 

NB: The ingredients are for a small cake, medium cake is double the ingredients and large is triple the ingredients.  

Alcohol content: - Brandy has to be 40% and wine has to be 18%.

Happy Baking!!!