Boiled fruit cake

Made this cake for the second time and it is yummy, really moist and fruity. Like others used tea instead of water and added golden syrup and extra spice. I like my cake fruity so went with the full 900g. Leave it for at least a week and keeps for ages. Enjoy!

Best fruit cake I've ever made, or eaten. So easy, so delicious, about to do it again!

Ihave been reading the reviews on this cake If you want a easy boil the fruit first cake look at a bero book and try the easy fruit cake recipe .I have made this one for years and my mother before me .I make it in a 2ib loaf tins for myself and 7ins round tins for family

Easy to prepare, i have made this 4 times now and have reduced the amount of fruit to around 500 - 600 gms.

try boiling the fruit in a good quality cider,it adds a lovely flavour to the finished cake!

i've eaten some bad cakes in the past but this takes the biscuit!!

Great and easy recipe, made it several times already

Just put this recipe in the oven, its bubbling over like mad! Something is definitely wrong with the recipe. Why would someone put a recipe on this site if it doesn't work? Strange.

I made this recipe today as a surprise for my husband. It really appealed because I don't like the booziness of some fruit cakes and this didn't have any! It took about 15 minutes from starting to get it in the oven including boiling time. I have to agree with others that have said it won't fit into a 1lb loaf tin - I used a 20cm round tin and it was perfect! I only used 500g dried fruit mix as thats all I had but that is more than adequate. We like a lot of spice so I added 3tsps of mixed spice and also 3tbsp's of golden syrup with fantastic Christmas flavour results, might even add more next time as it was still quite mild. I don't usually like fruit cake but this is simply wonderful. It's moist, heavy and beautiful. I'm going to purchase some more fruit mix and make a few more cakes for friends and family. Fantastic recipe and has been added to my favourites, it's one that will be used year after year after year... I'd like to add also that this will be used as Christmas Cake for us. A real money saver as well as delicious! MARGE:--- If you feel like using the amounts in my review and the 20-22cm round tin, my cake was cooked in exactly 90 minutes at 150C. Hope this helps hun, don't be disheartened!! xx