Name: Light fruit cake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: Serves: 12
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon of water or brandy; 300 g butter; 50 g flaked almonds; 6 glace cherries, chopped; 4 dried apricots, chopped into small pieces; icing sugar, to dust; 250 g brown sugar; 4 eggs; 250 g self raising flour

Preparation info

Serves:
12

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
55 min

Appears in

Lucy's Food

By Lucy Cufflin

Published 2013

About

This cake makes a great alternative to a Christmas cake if you are not keen on the very rich texture of a traditional cake. You can ice it with a plain icing made with icing sugar and a little water, but it does not cope well with being covered with marzipan.

Ingredients

300 g butter
50 g raisins
1 tablespoon of

Method

Put 50 g of the butter in a saucepan with the raisins, brandy or water, apricots, cherries and almonds. Melt the butter and mix the ingredients together. Cover and leave to one side.
Cut a 35cm diameter circle from the baking parchment and press into the tin, foldi

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