Lilia's fruit cake
2 hours 10 min
A lighter coloured fruit cake that would work as a Christmas cake but tastes good to me any time of year!
Maida Black
18 people made this
Ingredients
Makes: 1 cake
- 225g butter
- 225g caster sugar
- 4 eggs, beaten
- 1 dessertspoon golden syrup
- 225g flour
- 350g mixed fruit
- 50g glace cherries
- Pinch of ground ginger
Method
Prep:10min ›
Cook:2hr ›
Ready in:2hr10min
- Preheat the oven to 150 C / Gas 2. Lightly butter and flour a cake tin.
- Cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Mix in beaten eggs and syrup. Stir together flour, mixed fruit, cherries and ground ginger; fold into butter mixture and pour into prepared tin.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean, about 2 hours.
