Fruitcake recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 15 mins; recipe has butter, almond, plain flour, icing sugar, egg, dried fruit, brandy, butter, apricot jam and icing sugar.
Fruitcake with apricot butter icing
Course: Fruitcake
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
25 mins
Ingredients
- Egg: 4 medium eggs
- Butter: 200g butter, softened
- Almond: 100g whole almond
- Plain Flour: 200g plain flour
- Brandy: 25ml brandy
- Icing Sugar: 200g icing sugar
- Apricot Jam: 150g apricot jam
- Dried Fruit: 700g mixed dried fruit
Directions
- Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Grease a deep 20cm round cake tin with a little bit of the butter, then line with greaseproof paper or baking parchment. Wrap a couple of sheets of newspaper around the outside of the tin, then secure with string.
- In a food processor, whizz the almonds with the flour until the mix resembles crumbs. Beat the butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one by one, then fold in the flour and almonds, dried fruit and brandy. Scrape into the tin, level the surface and bake for 1 hr 15 mins, until a skewer poked in comes out clean. Cool in the tin.
- When the cake is completely cold, make the icing quickly by beating the butter, jam and icing sugar until pale. Don't allow the butter to get too warm or overbeat as the icing might split. Swirl all over the cake, then leave in a cool place to set (but not the fridge).
