Green tea fruitcake squares

Name: Green tea fruitcake squares
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 5 h 10 min
Yield: Cuts into 20
Ingredients: 1 tbsp/15 ml fine-cut orange marmalade, to glaze; 450 g/1 lb/3 cups dried mixed fruit; 250 g/9 oz/2¼ cups wholemeal (whole-wheat) self-raising (self-rising) flour; 300 ml/½ pint/1¼ cups hot green tea, strained if needed; 75 g/3 oz/6 tbsp light muscovado (brown) sugar; Grated zest of ½ orange; 1 dessert apple, cored and coarsely grated; Grated zest of ½ lemon

Preparation info

Cuts into
20

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
6 hr

Appears in

Energy Balls & Power Bites

By Sara Lewis

Published 2017

About

Chances are your granny would have made a version of this cake in a loaf tin with leftover tea from the teapot; while you can still do this, teabread gets a more modern makeover with green tea and naturally-sweet dried fruits with just a tiny amount of added sugar and a sticky marmalade glaze.

Ingredients

450 g/1 lb/3 cups dried mixed fruit
300

Method

Add the fruit to a bowl, pour over the hot tea, cover and leave to soak for 4 hours or overnight.
Preheat the oven to 160°C/325°F/Gas 3. Cut a piece of baking parchment a little larger than a 20cm/8in shallow square cake tin or pan, snip into the corne