Name: Fay Ripley's fruit cake recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: Serves: 8
Cuisine: Baking
Ingredients: 100g dried apricots; 100g sultanas; 70g pecans; 200g butter; 160g golden caster sugar (with a little extra for dusting); 100g plain flour; 1 tsp baking powder; 100g ground almonds; 3 large eggs; 1 orange, zest and juice

By GoodtoKnow

published 17 May 2012

in Recipes

TV fave Fay Ripley made this easy fruit cake for Marie Cure Cancer Care's Blooming Great Tea Party. Ready in under an hour, it's a great last-minute bake

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Ingredients

100g dried apricots
100g sultanas
70g pecans
200g butter
160g golden caster sugar (with a little extra for dusting)
100g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
100g ground almonds
3 large eggs
1 orange, zest and juice

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Method

Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas Mark 4
Whizz or chop apricots, sultanas and pecans a little, into a mincemeat.
Cream the butter and sugar till fluffy then beat in eggs one at a time (with a little of the flour)
Fold in gently, the rest of the flour then everything else.
Plop into a 20cm (ish) lined cake tin, smooth the top.
Bake until firm and golden for about 45 mins and dust in the tin with extra sugar

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