Glace Fruit Cake

 

                                              

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Ingredients

Butter,softened-185gram

Castor sugar-1/2 cup

Eggs-3

Finely chopped glace apricot -1 cup-250 gram

Finely chopped glace orange-80 gram

Finely chopped glace ginger-90 gram

Finely chop glace fig-100 gram

Finely chop glace cherries-80 gram

Finely chop glace pear-60 gram

Plain flour-225 gram

Self-raising flour-75 gram

Milk-125ml

Ginger wine-60ml

Ginger Syrup

Ginger wine- 1/2 cup

Water- 60ml

Caster sugar-55 gram

Lemon juice- 2 teaspoons

Method of preparation

1.Preheat oven to 150 degrees C /130 degrees C fan-forced.

Grease a round cake tin.

2.Beat sugar and butter in a small bowl with an electric mixer until 

just combined. Add eggs one at a time and beat nicely.

Transfer this mixture to another large bowl, Stir in fruit then sifted flours, and combined milk and wine, in two batches.

Spread mixture into cake tin

Bake about 2 and a 1/2 hours.

Meanwhile, make ginger syrup. Pour hot syrup over hot cake in pan.

Cover with foil.Cool in pan.

Ginger syrup;

Stir ingredients in a small saucepan over low heat without boiling, until sugar dissolves. Bring it to a boil.

Boil, uncovered, without stirring about 2 minutes or until syrup thickens slightly.