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🍰 English Fruit Cake

141 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees (160 degrees for fan-assisted or gas mark 2-3).
  2. 2. Whisk the eggs, maple syrup, spices, orange zest, wholemeal flour, and baking powder in a bowl until you have a smooth batter.
  3. 3. Stir the almonds and chopped walnuts into the batter.
  4. 4. Dice the figs and dates.
  5. 5. Finely chop the ginger.
  6. 6. Add the diced figs, dates, ginger, currants, and raisins to the batter.
  7. 7. Toss the fruit and nuts in a little flour to prevent them from sinking.
  8. 8. Gently fold the coated ingredients into the batter.
  9. 9. Pour the batter into a cake ring or cake tin.
  10. 10. Bake the cake for 50 minutes in the preheated oven.
  11. 11. Cover the cake with parchment paper after 50 minutes to prevent it from browning too much.
  12. 12. Continue baking for another 50 minutes (100 minutes in total).
  13. 13. Remove the tin from the oven.
  14. 14. Let the cake cool in the tin for 10 minutes.
  15. 15. Remove the cake from the tin.
  16. 16. Let the cake cool completely.

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