Boiled and Baked Christmas Cake with Goji Berries & Dates

Name: Boiled and Baked Christmas Cake with Goji Berries & Dates
Yield: Serves 12–20
Ingredients: 100 g pitted dates, chopped (I like Medjool); 50 g dried cranberries; 50 g goji berries or raisins; 2 tsp ground cinnamon; 2 tsp ground allspice; 160 g soft light brown sugar; 75 g pecans; 50 g dried blueberries; 80 g ground almonds; 75 g dried apricots, chopped; 150 g butter; ½ tsp baking powder; 100 g white spelt flour; 3 eggs; 100 g apricot jam; 150 ml water; 100 g glacé cherries

Preparation info

Serves
12–20

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Bake

By Lorraine Pascale

Published 2017

About

I used to think that boiled fruit cakes never actually went into the oven. However, this isn’t the case – the fruit is first boiled and then goes into the mixture and is baked in the usual way, but the preparation is considerably quicker and easier than making a regular fruitcake. Give it a go! It’s a great short-cut version, perfect for those of us who are pressed for time.