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Recipe Ingredient
- 250 g butter
- 175 g sugar
- 5 eggs
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
- 1/2 tsp orange essence
- (B):
- 275 g self-raising flour
- 75 g flour
- 1 tsp salt
- Combine:
- 100 ml orange juice
- 100 ml milk
- 100 g dried apricots sliced thinly
- 75 g sultanas
- 2 tbsp orange rind
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 170ºC. Grease and flour a 21cm round ring tin.
- Sift self-raising flour, flour and salt. Combine apricots, sultanas and orange rind in a bowl. Add 2 tbsp flour and mix well.
- Beat butter and sugar until light and creamy. Add eggs one at a time. If mixture curdles, add a tablespoon of flour. Add the essences. Fold in flour and add the combined orange and milk mixture alternately.
- Stir in the fruits and mix evenly with a spatula. Pour into prepared tin and bake for 50 to 60 minutes. Use a skewer to test if cake is cooked.
- Leave cake to cool for 10 minutes before turning it out onto a wire rack. Sift icing sugar over.
