Dried Fruit and Almond Cake
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Difficulty:
easy
Difficulty
Preparation:
2 h. 50 min.
Preparation
Ingredients
for
1
- Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup caster sugar
- 5 eggs
- 2 cups self-rising flour
- ½ tsp grated Nutmeg
- 0.333 cup Candied cherry (rinsed, dried and quartered)
- 1 Orange (finely grated zest)
- 1 cup Currants
- 1 cup Golden raisins
- ¾ cup chopped Candied fruit
- ½ cup Almond flour
- ¾ cup whole almonds
Preparation steps
1.
Heat the oven to 160°C (140° fan) 325°F gas 3. Grease a 25cm|10" cake tin and line with non-stick baking paper.
2.
Beat the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time with a teaspoon of the flour, beating well after each addition.
3.
Sift the remaining flour with the nutmeg and fold into the butter mixture. Fold in the fruits, zest and candied peel and mix well. Gently fold in the ground almonds.
4.
Spoon into the tin and slightly hollow the centre with the back of a spoon. Bake for 1 1/2 hours.
5.
Remove from the oven and arrange the whole almonds on the top in circles. Return to the oven and cook for a further 45-60 minutes until firm and golden. Cool in the tin for 10 minutes, and then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
