Super easy fruit cake with no zesting and no electric whisks. This can be achieved with just a wooden spoon and a bowl and best of all, its delicious!
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Ingredients
100g light muscavado sugar
175ml olive oil
2 eggs
225g plain flour
3/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp allspice
generous splash of orange juice
generous splash of lemon juice
200g fruit cake fruit mix
Apricot Jam (for filling)
Icing sugar (to sprinkle on top)
Method
STEP 1
Set oven to 160C and grease two 20cm pans. Mix together the oil and sugar.
STEP 2
Add the eggs, flour, bicarb., cinnamon, allspice, orange juice and lemon juice and mix thoroughly with a wooden spoon. The mix should be pourable and reasonably runny.
STEP 3
Gently fold in the fruit, then split between two 20cm pans.
STEP 4
Cook for 30min and then leave to cool.
STEP 5
When cool remove from the tins sandwich the cakes together with jam and then sieve some icing sugar on top.