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Apricot & almond fruit cake

Ingredients

  1. Step 1 140g golden sultana
  2. Step 2 4 tbsp sherry
  3. Step 3 250g pack butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
  4. Step 4 250g light soft brown sugar
  5. Step 5 1 tsp vanilla extract
  6. Step 6 3 large eggs, beaten
  7. Step 7 200g plain flour
  8. Step 8 1 tsp baking powder
  9. Step 9 100g ground almond
  10. Step 10 50g toasted flaked almond
  11. Step 11 140g dried apricot, chopped
  12. Step 12 140g mixed peel
  13. Step 13 zest and juice 1 lemon
  14. Step 14 zest and juice 1 orange
Apricot & almond fruit cake
Calories: 486 Carbohydrate: 56 g Protein: 7 g Fat: 27 g
Cook time: 115 minutes Prep time: 30 minutes Total time: 145 minutes Servings: 12

TAGS

Dessert British Josh Eagleton Celebration cake Christmas cake Christmas pudding Currant cake Dried apricot Festive Flaked almond Fruit cake Fruit sponge Ground almond Icing a cake Sarah Cook Sherry Xma

Directions

  1. Step 1 Mix the sultanas and sherry and set aside for 1 hr to soak.
  2. Step 2 Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Grease a deep, 23cm loose-bottomed cake tin, and line the base and sides with a double layer of baking parchment that comes about 2.5cm above the sides of the tin. In your largest mixing bowl, beat the butter, sugar and vanilla together until pale and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one by one.
  3. Step 3 Stir in the flour, baking powder, and the ground and flaked almonds. Next, add the soaked sultanas with any remaining sherry, the dried apricots, the mixed peel, and all the zest and juice. Scrape into the cake tin, smoothing out the surface.
  4. Step 4 Bake on the middle shelf of the oven for 1 hr 25 mins. Poke with a skewer in the centre to check it is cooked - if the skewer comes out with any uncooked mixture stuck to it, bake for 10 mins more before checking again. Cool in the tin. Decorated, or wrapped in greaseproof paper and foil, the cake will keep for up to a month.