Paul's Excellent Fruit Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 35 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup currants
• 1 cup sultana
• 1 cup raisins
• you could use mixed fruit to replace the individual fruit
• 1/2 cup mixed peel (either orange or lemon. )
• 1/2 lb butter
• 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 1 cup cold water or 1 cup sherry wine
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup self raising flour
• 1 cup plain flour

Recipe

• 1 place the sugar, fruit, peel, butter, bicarbonate of soda and the liquid, sherry or water into a large pot and bring it to the boil. then let this mixture cool for ten minutes.
• 2 beat the 3 eggs well and add this to your mixture along with the self raising flour and the plain flour. make sure you mix all of this well on a slow speed if you have an electric mixer.
• 3 transfer the mixture to a 9*x4" springform cake pan which has been well greased and is lined with a suitable greased oven proof paper and floured.
• 4 bake the mixture in the middle of a medium temperature oven and bake for 1 1/4 hours, ( one and a quarter hours, ) or until a test skewer comes out fairly dry when you prick the cake in the middle.
• 5 you must leave the cake to cool in the cake tin thoroughly before removing it, as this prevents the cake from splitting.
• 6 once cooled you can decorate it to suit your pleasure. it is great with marzipan and royal icing.