Light fruit cake

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0 serving Prep: 35 mins, Cooking: 2 hrs 30 mins
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By Food24 November 03 2009
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Ingredients (12)

250.00 g butter
200.00 g white sugar
5.00 eggs — large, slighly beaten
50.00 ml brandy
500.00 g flour — cake
10.00 ml Baking powder
1.00 ml salt
200.00 g glacé cherries — quartered
250.00 g sultanas
100.00 g figs — preserved, chopped
150.00 g mixed citrus peel
100.00 g mixed nuts
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Method:

Grease and line a deep 23 cm round or 23 x 28 cm rectangular baking tin.
Beat butter and sugar together in a large bowl until light. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in brandy.
Fold 400 g of the flour with baking powder and salt.
Mix fruit and roughly chopped nuts together in a bowl and add remaining flour. Toss to coat fruit and nuts in flour, then fold into cake mixture.
Spoon mixture into prepared tin and bake in preheated 160 °C oven for 2-2 1/2 hours or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
Makes 1 x 23 cm round or 23 x 28 cm rectangular cake.



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