With Christmas, just around the corner, I have a lovely Christmas Fruit Cake recipe for you to try out for this year’s festivities. Many thanks to our B&B Host, Sheila of White Heather Farm, for this extremely tasty and easy to make recipe that everyone will find extremely delicious!

Ingredients

9 oz plain flour
1 level tsp of mixed spice
12 oz raisins
12 oz sultanas
12 oz currants
2 oz candy peel chopped
3 oz glazed cherries (chopped)
2 oz almonds
8 oz butter
8 oz brown sugar
4 eggs (lightly beaten)
2 tsp black treacle
3 tbs of brandy

Method

1.  Line an 8-inch round baking tin with grease proof paper (at least 3                layers).
2.  Mix all ingredients in a large bowl and mix them very well.
3.  Pour mixture into the lined cake tin.
4.  Place cake in middle of the oven and bake for 3 hours at 150°C                    / 300°F / Gas Mark 2
5.  Then reduce the oven heat to 140°C / 275°F / Gas Mark 1 and bake for        approximately a further 1-1.5 hours.
6.  Dip a clean knife down through the centre of the cake and if the knife is        dry the cake is done.
7.  Remove from oven and leave in tin for 10 minutes until cool.
8.  Turn cake out onto a wire tray (carefully) and cover with a clean tea-            towel to keep the moisture in.
9.  Allow the cake stand for about 6 hours and then wrap the cake in                  grease proof paper and then a layer of tin-foil.

As easy as that, but it is our little secret! 😉