Name: Easy apple fruit cake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: Cuts into 12 slices
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 200g butter softened plus extra for greasing; 200g dark muscovado sugar; 3 eggs beaten; 1 tbsp black treacle; 200g self-raising flour; 2 tsp mixed spice; 1 tsp baking powder; 2 eating apples grated (approx 100g each); 300g mixed sultanas and raisins

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Easy apple fruit cake

Easy apple fruit cake

Jane Hornby

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Cuts into 12 slices

Easy

Prep: 15 mins

Cook: 1 hr

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This cake has all the flavours of Christmas, but won't take ages to make - you can decorate it any way you like. Ideal for a wedding cake too

Freezable

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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200g butter

softened plus extra for greasing
200g dark muscovado sugar
3 eggs

beaten
1 tbsp black treacle
200g self-raising flour
2 tsp mixed spice
1 tsp baking powder
2 eating apples

grated (approx 100g each)
300g mixed sultanas

and raisins

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Nutrition: per slice

kcal350
fat16g
saturates9g
carbs51g
sugars18g
fibre1g
protein4g
salt0.63g

low

Method

step 1

Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Butter and line the bottom of a deep, round 20cm cake tin with greaseproof paper. Beat the first seven ingredients together in a large bowl (electric hand- beaters are best for this), until pale and thick. Using a large metal spoon, gently fold in the fruit until evenly combined.
step 2

Spoon the batter into the tin and bake for 50 mins-1 hr or until the cake is dark golden, springy to the touch and has shrunk away from the tin slightly. A skewer inserted into the centre will come out clean when it’s ready. Cool completely before decorating. Will keep, wrapped in an airtight container or iced, for up to a week, or can be frozen un-iced for up to a month – defrost fully before decorating.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, December 2005

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