Melt and Mix Summer Fruit Cake

  • Clock Icon Prep 15 mins Cooking 30 mins
  • Dinner Icon Serves 8

This is one of the easiest cake recipes ever and it’s the perfect way to treat yourself to the beautiful summer fruit.

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Ingredients

  • ½ cup buttermilk
  • 1 egg
  • ½ cup caster sugar
  • 1 ½ cups The Healthy Baker Self Raising Flour
  • 60g butter melted
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla paste
  • 1 teaspoon lemon zest
  • 4 apricots, halved and quartered
  • 1 handful red currants
  • 4 tablespoon caster sugar
  • ½ teaspoon mixed spice
  • to serve yoghurt or ice cream

Instructions

1

Preheat oven to 180C and grease and line a loaf tin or 20cm springform cake tin.

2

Mix the buttermilk, egg, sugar, flour, cooled melted butter, vanilla and zest together in a large bowl and stir until well combined.

3

Spoon mixture into the prepared loaf or cake tin and smooth over the top.

4

Arrange fruit to your liking then combine the caster sugar and mixed spice and dust this over the top.

5

Bake for 30 minutes or until the edges are golden brown and the top firm.

6

Let cool in the tin for a few minutes before turning out onto a wire rack.

7

Serve with thick natural yogurt or some ice cream.

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