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Golden Fruitcake
By : Rehana Khambaty
Category : Egg, Bhurji and other dishes
Servings : 2
Time Taken : 15-30 mins
Rating :
Method
  1. Preheat the oven to 140�C and prepare a 26-cm cake tin.
  2. Mix the pineapple, cherries, apricots and sultanas.
  3. Cream the butter and castor sugar until pale yellow.
  4. Add lemon juice and rind and beat well. Beat in eggs, one by one, beating well after each addition.
  5. Sift the flour on top followed by ground almonds.
  6. Fold in lightly. Stir in fruit and chopped nuts.
  7. Turn the mixture into the prepared tin, arrange the whole nuts on top and bake for 3 hours or until the cake is baked through and a testing skewer inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.
  8. Wrap tightly in aluminium foil and store in an air tight container.
  9. Ice just before serving with a soft icing made with icing sugar and milk.
  10. Decorate with silver balls.
Ingredients:
� cup - glazed pineapple pieces, chopped
1 cup - glace cherries, halved
� cup - dried apricots, chopped
1 cup - sultanas
250 ml - butter
1 cup - castor sugar
1 - lemon juice and grated rind
4 - extra large eggs
330 ml - self raising flour
100 ml - ground almonds
180 ml - blanched almonds or pecan nuts, coarsely chopped

For the Icing:
1 cup - icing sugar, sifted
a few drops milk
silver balls for decoration

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