Quick And Easy
Moist Boiled Fruit Cake
The apples make the difference to this recipe. This is my Mum's recipe, and she always said that the cake will stay moister and fresher by adding the apples.
INGREADIENT
- 1 cup mixed fruit
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- 125 g butter
- 2 cup plain flour
- 1 tsp mixed spice
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 egg
- 1 cup apple cooked
Direction
- Preheat oven to 180C (170C fan forced).
- Grease cake tin well and cover bottom with baking paper or greaseproof paper.
- Place sugar, water, mixed fruit and butter into a saucepan and bring to the boil.
- Allow to boil, slightly, for 3 minutes.
- Remove from stove and allow to cool.
- Sift flour, mixed spice, bicarbonate of soda and salt.
- Add to fruit mixture.
- Make a well in the middle of mixture.
- Add egg and stewed apple. Combine well.
- Pour mixture into cake tin and place on middle shelf of oven.
- Bake for 1 to 1¼ hours. Test cake with skewer to ensure it is cooked through.
- Allow to cool for 5-10 minutes before moving from cake tin, onto a cake rack.
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