Easy fruitcake
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Easy
- Serves 8
Ingredients
- 175ml flavourless oil, plus extra for greasing
- 100g light brown muscovado sugar
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 225g plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp allspice
- ½ orange, juiced
- ½ lemon, juiced
- 200g mixed dried fruit
- 200g apricot jam
- icing sugar, for dusting
Method
- STEP 1
Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/ gas 3. Grease and line the base of two 20cm springform cake tins with baking parchment.
- STEP 2
Stir together the oil and sugar, add the eggs, flour, baking powder, spices and juices, and mix thoroughly with a wooden spoon until pourable and reasonably runny. Gently fold in the fruit, then divide the batter evenly between the tins. Bake for 20-25 mins or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean, then leave to cool.
- STEP 3
When cool, remove from the tins and sandwich the cakes together with jam. Sieve some icing sugar on top to serve.
