Walnut & Coconut Fruit Cake
Classic fruit cake with a twist - walnuts & coconut!! Friends & family love it.
6 people made this
Ingredients
- 225g Self raising flour
- 110g unsalted butter
- 110g caster sugar
- 225g mixed fruit
- 1 large free range egg
- 12 tablespoons milk (semi skimmed is fine, whole milk is better)
- 1 teaspoon mixed spice
- A few chopped walnuts (to your own tastes)
- Desiccated coconut (2-3 tablespoons)
- 1 tablespoon of Demerara sugar
Method
- Pre heat oven to 180 degrees C
- Grease and line a loaf tin or 20cm cake tin
- Rub the butter into the sifted flour until it looks like fine breadcrumbs. Use fingertips only.
- Add the sugar, dried fruit and mixed spice.
- Add the egg and milk and mix together until it is well combined and has a soft “dropping” consistency.
- Stir in the walnuts and coconut.
- Put the mixture into a loaf tin (or a round tin if preferred) and sprinkle some Demerara sugar on top to leave a “crunch” finish when baked (pat it gently onto the top of the mixture).
- Bake in the pre-heated over at 180 degrees C for an hour or until a skewer comes out clean when poked in the middle.
