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Ingredients
900g Plain Flour
900g Mixed fruit
450g Sultanas
450g Butter
450g Soft brown muscavado sugar
225g Stoned raisins
225 Currents
110g Chopped cherries
100g Ground almonds
10 eggs
1 tbsp Caramel colour (I never use this)
1 Dsp Cinnamon
1 Dsp Vanilla essence
1 Dsp rum flavouring (i never use this)
1 Dsp nutmeg
1 Bottle of rum or ruby wine + extra for after cake is cooked
(as long as the dried fruit weighs 1,800g you can put in what you like. This year mine has figs, cranberries, apricots and mixed fruit)
Method
1) If you have time, get a large container wit a lid to hold all the fruit. Pour in bottle of Rum or Ruby wine and leave for 1-6 weeks. If you have no time pour wine over fruit in a large sauce pan and cook for about 6 mins.
2) If you have soaked the fruit put in sauce pan cover and simmer for 10 mins stirring occasionally (if not soaking fruit turn heat down to a simmer and cook for a further 10 mins). All the liquid should disappear into the fruit
3) Cream butter and sugar together until mix its fluffy, gradually add eggs and caramel colouring.
4) Mix the ground almonds, cinnamon and nutmeg into the flour. Add dry ingredients into the mix and fold in gently
5) mix fruit into cake batter adding the vanilla essence and rum flavouring place in a well lined tin
6) Bake at 180 for 25 mins the lower to 150 for approx 1hr 40mins.
7) Allow to cool for about 15mins then pour over 2 cups of rum
8) when cakes are cool wrap in grease proof paper and foil if you have time feed the cake more rum.
This mix makes 4 medium cakes so I would suggest halving it to get one family sized cake.
Hope that helps