Low Sugar Fruit Cake
Recipe courtesy of Gill Orde in Catering (Serves 20)
Ingredients
260g mixed dried fruit
150g currants
550ml Earl Grey or Lady Grey tea
1 tbsp treacle
1 egg, lightly beaten
20g sugar
280g self-raising flour
1 tsp mixed spice
Method
- Place dried fruit in a large bowl, pour over the tea and stir in the treacle
- Cover and allow to soak overnight
- Stir beaten egg into fruit mixture followed by the sugar, then the sifted flour and spice
- Spoon into a lined 13 x 22 cm loaf tin and bake at 160C/gas mark 3 for 60 to 75 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.