Last Minute Pineapple Christmas Cake150g butter, coarsely cubed
1 cup brown sugar
440g can crushed pineapple
500g mixed dried fruit
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
2 tbsp rum
1 cup flour
1 cup self-raising flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp mixed spice
1 tsp ground cinnamon
Heat oven to 150°C fan bake. Grease a 20cm round cake tin and line the base with nonstick baking paper.
Place butter, sugar, pineapple and juice in a saucepan, then stir until butter melts and sugar dissolves. Stir in dried fruit and simmer gently for 3 minutes. Remove to a bowl to cool.
Stir in the beaten eggs and rum. Then stir in the flours, baking soda and spices, sifted together. Spoon the mixture into the prepared cake tin and smooth the surface.
Bake for 1½ hours or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Cool cake in the tin before turning out. Spread with butter icing once cake is cooled completely.
Also filled the baking tin with these.....
Recipe is the one from the gingerbread men in a jar gifts that I made for friends last year and they are SO good and the recipe makes HEAPS!
2 comments:
hehe that is the recipe I use when I want a super easy and delish fruitcake!It was handed down from my nana, wonder where she got it from hehe
LOL this fruit cake recipe is almost identicle to mine - it's so yummy and moist and goes down a treat every Christmas :)
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