British · serves 2
Quick Fruit Cake
Ten minutes of mixing, forty-five in the oven, no soaking and no waiting.
Ingredients
- 125g butter, softened
- 200g soft brown sugar
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 250ml orange juice
- 255g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp ground allspice
- 125g mixed dried fruit, chopped
- 130g mixed nuts, chopped
- Zest of 1 orange
- 2 tbsp jam
Method
- Cream butter and sugar until pale and fluffy.
- Stir the baking soda into the orange juice — it will fizz — and pour it straight into the creamed butter.
- Sift flour and allspice together and add gradually, stirring with a wooden spoon.
- Fold in the fruit, nuts, zest and jam.
- Lined 20cm tin. 180°C for 45 minutes.
- Keeps a week wrapped, and improves after two days.