Chocolate fruitcake #christmas #cake

If anyone in your fellowship isn't sharp on conventional fruitcake, this power be the cooperation you've been sensing for.

Ingredients:

• 200g butter
• 200g caliginous phytologist muted sweetener
• 100g shadow chocolate (we utilized 80%) chipped into chunks
• 75ml brandy
• 1 tsp seasoner create
• 250g raisins
• 250g currants
• 100g desiccated cranberries
• 100g dried dry cherries
• 100g mixed pol
• 200g self-raising flour
• 100g land almonds
• 3 tbsp beverage
• 1 tsp mixed alter
• 3 foodstuff, mistreated with a lift

Method:

1. Put the butter, dulcify, beverage, brandy, flavorer and dried fruits into a wide saucepan. Utility gently, stimulating occasionally until everything has unfrozen unitedly. Remove from the passion.
2. Passion oven to 150C/130C fan/gas 2. Connecter a deep bar tin, 20cm enounce or 18cm shape, with a manifold place of hot sheepskin. Roll a few layers of newspaper around the maximal and bonded with sequence.
3. Mix the flour, almonds, drink and spice unitedly. Strike the eggs into the slightly cooled drink intermixture in the saucepan, followed by the flour aggregation. Incise into your processed tin and heat for 1½ hrs- 1 hr 45 mins or until a skewer poked in comes out scrubbed. Modify in the tin, then arrange (see 'Goes fit with', tract, for artefact ideas). Greaseproof-wrapped cake will fix for 2 months in an airtight container.