Mincemeat cake

Name: Mincemeat cake
Ingredients: 115 g/4 oz/½ cup soft tub margarine, plus extra for greasing; 3 small oranges; 225 g/8 oz/⅔ cup luxury fruit mincemeat; 15 ml/1 tbsp milk; 175 g/6 oz/1½ cups icing (confectioners’) sugar; 50 g/2 oz plain (semisweet) chocolate, grated; 2 eggs, beaten; 75 g/3 oz/⅓ cup soft dark brown sugar; 2.5 ml/½ tsp baking powder; 175 g/6 oz/1½ cups self-raising (self-rising) flour

Preparation info

Serves
8–10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cakes

By Ann Nicol

Published 2014

About

If you have part of a jar of fruit mincemeat and a few small oranges left over after the Christmas holiday, they make a great basis for a tangy, quick and easy cake. Enrich the batter with some plain chocolate to make the cake even more special. Keep for one week in an airtight container.

Ingredients

115 g/4 oz/½ cup soft tub margarine, plus extra for greasing
3

Cake
Vegetarian
Leftovers
Christmas

Method

Preheat the oven to 160°C/325°F/Gas 3. Grease and line a 20cm/8in round deep cake tin (pan) with baking parchment.
Finely grate the rind from two oranges and put it in a large bowl.
Pare long shreds of peel from the third orange, then set asi