It’s known for it’s association to Christmas, but this Boiled Fruit Cake recipe can be made any time of the year!
Ingredients
Method
- In a saucepan melt margarine, then add brown sugar, mixed fruit, bicarb soda, golden syrup and sherry. Stir to blend ingredients and bring to the boil, then let simmer for 20 minutes.
- Cool mixture.
- Mix into cooled mixture the mashed pumpkin, beaten eggs, Self Raising Flour, Plain Flour and sherry (as needed)
- Preheat oven to 150°C.
- Grease and line cake tin before filling with mixture.
- Cook for 1 1/2 hours. When removing from the oven, wrap in newspaper while cooling to keep cake moist.