Modern Fruit Cake
Cooking time1 hour 15 minutes
Prep time30 minutes
Servings12 portions
Ingredients
- 450g mixed dried fruit (e.g. raisins, currants, dates, cranberries, figs and mangoes)
- 150g Stork Packet
- 300 ml semi-skimmed milk
- 100g golden syrup
- 225g plain flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 level teaspoon each of mixed spice and ground cinnamon
- 2 medium eggs
- 50g icing sugar + extra for dusting
- 200g fresh low fat cream cheese
- 1 dessertspoon fresh lemon juice
- deep round cake tin 20 cm (greased and base lined with baking paper), brush, plastic spatula, aluminium foil
| Energy (kcal) | 0 kcal |
| Energy (kJ) | 0 kJ |
| Protein (g) | 0.0 g |
| Carbohydrate incl. fibre (g) | 0.0 g |
| Carbohydrate excl. fibre (g) | 0.0 g |
| Sugar (g) | 0.0 g |
| Fibre (g) | 0.0 g |
| Fat (g) | 0.0 g |
| Saturated fat (g) | 0.0 g |
| Unsaturated fat (g) | 0.0 g |
| Monounsaturated fat (g) | 0.0 g |
| Polyunsaturated fat (g) | 0.0 g |
| Trans fat (g) | 0.0 g |
| Cholesterol (mg) | 0 mg |
| Sodium (mg) | 0 mg |
| Salt (g) | 0.00 g |
| Vitamin A (IU) | 0 IU |
| Vitamin C (mg) | 0.0 mg |
| Calcium (mg) | 0 mg |
| Iron (mg) | 0.00 mg |
| Potassium (mg) | 0 mg |
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 150°C, 140°C fan oven, Gas mark 2.
- Chop the larger fruit into small pieces.
- Heat the Stork, milk, syrup and fruit in a saucepan, stirring until the Stork and syrup have melted. Infuse the mixture over a low heat for 5 minutes (do not boil). Cool until the mixture is lukewarm.
- Sieve the flour, baking powder, mixed spice and cinnamon into a bowl. Stir in the eggs and the fruit mixture using a hand mixer (or wooden spoon).
- Fill the prepared cake tin with the batter and bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour 15minutes or until cooked. After 1 hour cover the cake with tin foil (to avoid it becoming too dark). Leave the baked cake in the cake tin for about 20 minutes before turning out on a wire rack to cool.
- Beat the cream cheese, icing sugar and lemon juice with a wooden spoon until smooth.
- Cover the cake with the icing . Dust with icing sugar. Cut the cake into 10 slices.
