Christmas Cake

  • Clock Icon Prep 30 mins Cooking 3 hours
  • Dinner Icon Serves 24

This wonderful fruit cake is perfect cake for the Christmas season.

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Ingredients

  • 125g butter
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • ⅔ cup honey
  • 350g pitted prunes, chopped
  • 200g raisins
  • 200g currants
  • 2 orange rind finely grated, juiced
  • ½ cup sweet sherry
  • 4 eggs beaten
  • 1 cup The Healthy Baker Plain Flour
  • ⅓ cup sifted cocoa
  • ⅔ cup almond meal
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • 1 cup almonds blanced
  • 2 tablespoon warmed apricot jam

Instructions

1

Preheat the oven to 150°C/130°C fan-forced. Lightly spray a 22cm round cake tin with oil and line with a double layer of baking paper.

2

Place butter, sugar, honey, prunes, raisins, currants, orange rind, juice and sherry in a large saucepan. Bring to the boil while stirring, lower heat and simmer for 10 minutes, uncovered. Set aside to cool for 30 minutes.

3

Stir in eggs, flour, cocoa, almond meal, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda. Spoon mixture into prepared tin and smooth the top. Arrange almonds on top.

4

Bake for 2 hours or until cooked when tested with a skewer. Brush hot cake with jam. Cover with a clean tea towel and cool in the tin for 8 hours or overnight.

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