Modern Fruit Cake
- 2 cups mixed dried fruit e.g. raisins, currants, dates, cranberries, figs and mangoes
- 5 1/4 ounces Stork packet
- 300 ml semi-skimmed milk
- 5 1/8 tablespoons golden syrup
- 1 3/4 cups plain flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 mixed spice level teaspoon each of, and ground cinnamon
- 2 eggs medium
- 6 2/3 tablespoons icing sugar + extra for dusting
- 7/8 cup low fat cream cheese fresh
- 1 fresh lemon juice desser tspoon
- 2/3 foot base greased and, lined with baking paper, brush, plastic spatula, aluminium foil
- Preheat the oven to 150u0b0C, 140u0b0C fan oven, Gas mark 2.
- Chop the larger fruit into small pieces.
- Heat the Stork, milk, syrup and fruit in a saucepan, stirring until the Stork and syrup have melted. Infuse the mixture over a low heat for 5 minutes (do not boil). Cool until the mixture is lukewarm.
- Sieve the flour, baking powder, mixed spice and cinnamon into a bowl. Stir in the eggs and the fruit mixture using a hand mixer (or wooden spoon).
- Fill the prepared cake tin with the batter and bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour 15minutes or until cooked. After 1 hour cover the cake with tin foil (to avoid it becoming too dark). Leave the baked cake in the cake tin for about 20 minutes before turning out on a wire rack to cool.
- Beat the cream cheese, icing sugar and lemon juice with a wooden spoon until smooth.
- Cover the cake with the icing . Dust with icing sugar. Cut the cake into 10 slices.
raisins, stork packet, milk, golden syrup, flour, baking powder, mixed spice level, eggs, icing sugar , cream cheese, lemon juice, foot base
Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Modern-Fruit-Cake-378940 (may not work)