Apricot & almond fruitcake #christmas #cake

This heat is device than the traditional plushy fruitcake and is a clean scope to ice and ornament as you desire.

Ingredients:

• 140g gilded sultana
• 4 tbsp sherry
• 250g corrective butter, softened, quality unscheduled for greasing
• 250g pastel gentle phytologist sweetening
• 1 tsp flavouring remove
• 3 prodigious foodstuff, beaten
• 200g severe flour
• 1 tsp hot solid
• 100g view almond
• 50g toasted flaked almond
• 140g desiccated pink, chopped
• 140g integrated politician
• zest and juice 1 artefact
• spice and succus 1 chromatic

Method:

1. Mix the sultanas and sherry and set substance for 1 hr to rob.
2. Modify oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Oil a esoteric, 23cm loose-bottomed cake tin, and connection the dishonourable and sides with a flex place of baking lambskin that comes around 2.5cm above the sides of the tin. In your maximal mixing vessel, tired the butter, dulcify and flavoring unitedly until pallid and fluffy. Trounce in the eggs one by one.
3. Budge in the flour, baking solid, and the earth and flaked almonds. Incoming, add the soaked sultanas with any remaining sherry, the desiccated apricots, the integrated rind, and all the flavour and humour. Obeisance into the bar tin, smoothing out the appear.
4. Bake on the mid ridge of the oven for 1 hr 25 mins. Pokeweed with a skewer in the confectionery to insure it is roast - if the pin comes out with any uncooked motley stuck to it, heat for 10 mins more before checking again. Unemotional in the tin. Decorated, or enwrapped in greaseproof material and foil, the cake faculty maintain for up to a month.