Fruit Cake

Let’s start the New Year with this awesome recipe…..

Ingredients

8 oz soft flour

8 0z butter

4 eggs

1 tsp baking powder

1 Tbsp honey

1 Tbsp condensed milk

2 oz chopped almond

1 tsp mix spice (apple)

half orange and lemon juice, about 2 oz

half orange and lemon zest or rind

5 oz sugar

8 oz currants

8 oz raisins

8 oz sultanas

Preparation of fruits

Soak the currants, raisins and sultanas with brandy for at least 2 weeks. Preferably 1 month with ¼ to ½ a bottle of brandy.

Method

1. Whisk the eggs and sugar till fluffy.

2. Cream the butter till light and fluffy.

3. Add condensed milk, honey, orange and lemon juice into the butter.

4. Add the egg mixture slowly to the cream butter mixture.

5. Sieve the flour, baking powder and mix spice together.

6. Add ½ flour to butter mixture to ½ mixed fruit and slowly add the rest of the flour and mixed fruit.

7. Bake in moderate heat at 150 degrees for 1 hour.

8. Bake in lower heat at 100 degrees for 30 mins.