Boiled Fruit Cake
Ingredients
135g sultanas
100g black raisins
100g golden raisins
100g red glazed cherries, halved
150ml orange juice
70g castor sugar
135g butter
100ml rum
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
100g high-protein flour
145g self-raising flour
100ml extra rum
Method
Lightly grease and line a 20cm by 14cm loaf pan with nonstick parchment paper.
Combine sultanas, raisins and glazed cherries with orange juice, sugar and butter in a nonstick saucepan. Cook and stir over medium low heat until sugar dissolves. Reduce the heat and add rum. Simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from the heat and transfer to a mixing bowl. Leave to cool completely.
Beat eggs lightly with essence and pour into the cooled fruit mixture. Sift the high-protein and self-raising flour together and stir into the egg mixture to mix.
Transfer batter to the prepared pan and bake in a preheated oven at 170°C for about 1 hour 15 minutes or until cake is cooked through when tested with a wooden skewer.
Allow the cake to sit in the pan for 20 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Tip: To prevent the cake from drying out, use a satay stick to prick holes in it at random and drizzle over extra rum. Wrap with aluminium foil for 5-6 hours before cutting or slicing.
Tags: Amy Beh, butter, castor sugar, orange juice, picnic, snacks, sultanas, tea, Vanilla Essence
little sugar. 70 gr only. ??