Fruitcake recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has butter, dark muscovado sugar, egg, treacle, self-raising flour, mixed spice, baking powder, apple and sultana.
Easy apple fruit cake
Course: Fruitcake
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
15 mins
Ingredients
- Egg: 3 eggs, beaten
- Butter: 200g butter, softened plus extra for greasing
- Apple: 2 eating apples, grated (approx 100g each)
- Self Raising Flour: 200g self-raising flour
- Baking Powder: 1 tsp baking powder
- Sultana: 300g mixed sultanas and raisins
- Mixed Spice: 2 tsp mixed spice
- Dark Muscovado Sugar: 200g dark muscovado sugar
- Treacle: 1 tbsp black treacle
Directions
- 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.
- 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.
