How To Make Gingered Rich Fruit Cake

By Sonasnair

This traditional cake has been jazzed up with lots of ginger – you’d never know it’s gluten-free and dairy-fee. Perfect for weddings and Christmas.

Prep: 28 min     Serves: 10     Easy to serve

Cook: 2 hrs 15 min

Plus 10 min to decorate

Nutrition per serving

Calories – 600     Carbohydrates – 107                      Saturated Fat – 3

Sugar – 43   Protein – 7                                       Fat – 18

Fibre – 4   Salt – 0.33

Ingredients

Oil, For greasing

Dried Currants     100g

Sultanas     100g

Raisins     100g

Semi-dried figs and prunes, roughly chopped                          225g

Crystallized ginger     200g

Stem ginger, from a jar, chopped     100g

Stem ginger syrup     2 tbsp

Cointreau     4 tbsp

Ground ginger and mixed spice                                                  1 tsp

Lemons     2 zest

Olive OIL                                                                                          150 ml

Light muscovado sugar     175g

Eggs     4

Gluten-free flour     225g

Gluten-free baking powder     1 tsp

Apricot jam     4 tbsp

Mixed Fruit, Including figs, prunes, dates and apricots

Method

  • Heat oven to 140c/fan 120c/gas. Lightly oil a 71.20cm deep, 25cm round cake tin, and line it with a double layer of baking parchment.
  • Mix the dried fruits, ginger and syrup, cointreau, spices and lemon zest. Put the olive oil, sugar and eggs in a bowl, whisk together until ligh and fluffy. Sift the flour and baking powder into the mixture and trip in the fruit. Fold and stir together well.
  • Spoon the mixture into the cake tin. Bake in the center of the oven for 2-21?2 hrs, or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean. Cover with foil if the cake begins to over-brown. Take from the oven and leave to cool in the tin. Remove, leaving the baking parchment in place until you decorate.
  • For the topping: warm the jam and Cointreau together until the jam is liquid, allow to cool. Arrange the fruit on the cake and brush with the jam.

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