Healthy Moist fruitcake with secret ingredient... Pumpkin!

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Healthy Moist fruitcake with secret ingredient... Pumpkin!

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Nutritional Info

Servings Per Recipe: 1
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 1,575.0

Total Fat: 3.5 g
Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
Sodium: 500.0 mg
Total Carbs: 351.5 g
Dietary Fiber: 0.0 g
Protein: 0.0 g

View full nutritional breakdown of Healthy Moist fruitcake with secret ingredient... Pumpkin! calories by ingredient

Introduction

Anyone can whip up this deliciously moist fruit cake, it's so simple and with no eggs, butter or sugar. It doesn't even require a mixer to prepare. Just soak, mix and bake. You can drizzle it with a little brandy or sherry after cooking if you like. Anyone can whip up this deliciously moist fruit cake, it's so simple and with no eggs, butter or sugar. It doesn't even require a mixer to prepare. Just soak, mix and bake. You can drizzle it with a little brandy or sherry after cooking if you like.

Minutes to Cook: 75

Number of Servings: 1

Ingredients

500g mixed dried fruit.

1 cup of apricot nectar.

1 teaspoon honey.

1 cup of cold mashed pumpkin. (cooked)

1 3/4 cup od sifted selfraising flour with

1 teaspoon of bi-carbonate soda and

1 teaspoon of mixed spice

whole nuts to decorate, optional.

Directions

*Place dried fruit, nectar and honey in a large bowl, stir to combine. Cover and allow to stand for 1 hour. ( I stir it through every 20 min)

*Preheat oven to a moderate 180C
line the base and sides of a 20 cm round cake panwith baking paper.

*Stir pumpkin into the fruit and mix to combine.
Add sifted self-raising flour mixture and stir well.
Pour mixture into prepared pan and level the surface.
Decorate with whole nuts.

*Bake for 75 minutes or until skewer inserted comes out clean and the top is golden.Cover with foil if the cake becomes too dark. Wrap in a teatowel and allow to cool in the pan.
Store in an airtight container until required.

Number of Servings: 1

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user DUTCHIEKIWI.