Kendall's Fruit Cake
- Number of Servings: 40
Ingredients
1 kg packet mixed dried fruit (for fruit cake)1 cup black tea (brewed from teabag, not sweetened)1 cup orange juice (real orange juice, not fruit drink)2 cups wholemeal flour3 tsp baking powder140g raw mixed nuts, chopped (or 70g slivered almonds and 70g chopped walnuts)2 generous tsp ground cinnamon2 tsp mixed spice2 tsp vanilla essence
1/ Soak the fruit in tea preferably overnight, but at least for a couple of hours.
2/ Preheat oven to 160 degrees celcius on fan bake setting. Place the rack just under halfway.
3/ Line the bottom and sides of a 20cm square cake tin with baking paper.
4/ Mix in the remaining ingredients with soaked fruit, except for about 1/3 of the nuts (if you're using almonds and walnuts, put the walnuts in but keep the almonds aside for now)
5/ Spoon into the tin. Sprinkle with reserved mixed nuts (or slivered almonds). Bake for approximately 1 1/2 hours or until a skewer stuck into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
6/ Cool, then cut into small fingers as required.
This cake makes at least 40 slices.
Number of Servings: 40
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user PHRASER.
2/ Preheat oven to 160 degrees celcius on fan bake setting. Place the rack just under halfway.
3/ Line the bottom and sides of a 20cm square cake tin with baking paper.
4/ Mix in the remaining ingredients with soaked fruit, except for about 1/3 of the nuts (if you're using almonds and walnuts, put the walnuts in but keep the almonds aside for now)
5/ Spoon into the tin. Sprinkle with reserved mixed nuts (or slivered almonds). Bake for approximately 1 1/2 hours or until a skewer stuck into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
6/ Cool, then cut into small fingers as required.
This cake makes at least 40 slices.
Number of Servings: 40
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user PHRASER.
Nutritional Info Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 125.6
- Total Fat: 2.5 g
- Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
- Sodium: 54.9 mg
- Total Carbs: 23.6 g
- Dietary Fiber: 0.8 g
- Protein: 2.0 g