Makes 5
Preparation time
20 minutes
Cooking time
50 minutes
Ingredients:
500g glace pineapple,
250g glace apricots,
125g glace figs, 125g dried
apricots, 500g pitted dates,
all chopped roughly
500g glace cherries
½ cup (125ml) rum or brandy
500g brazil nuts
200g unsalted butter
1 cup brown sugar
4 eggs
1¼ cup plain flour
½ cup self raising flour
3 tablespoons honey
Extra ½ cup rum or brandy
➊
Place all fruits into a large bowl and
pour over rum or brandy, cover
and leave overnight to soak.
Next day stir in brazil nuts.
➋
Preheat oven (Mode 9) to
moderately slow at 160° C.
Once this temperature is reached
turn oven to (Mode 5).
➌
Grease then line a 5x10cm round
cake tin with baking paper.
➍
Cream butter and sugar until the
mixture is pale in colour then add
eggs gradually, beating well after
each egg is added.
Sift flours and stir into creamed
egg, sugar and butter mixture with
¾ of the rum soaked fruit.
Divide mixture evenly among the
5 tins and bake in preheated oven
for 35 minutes.
➎
Heat honey in a medium saucepan
with the remaining fruit.
➏
Remove cakes from the oven and
spoon fruit and honey mix evenly
over the cakes before returning to
the oven for a further 15 minutes.
➐
Pour over extra rum and leave
to cool in tins. Once cold remove
cakes carefully from tins and wrap
in foil until ready to serve.
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