Ingredients List
for
Units:
- 0.5 cup sultanas, raisin, currant, chopped dried dates
- 1 lemon lemon (finely grate zest of lemon)
- 3 cups orange juice (squeeze your own if you have the time)
- 2 tsp vanilla essence
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp mixed spice
- 0.5 cup ground almonds
- 2 cups self-raising flour
Instructions
Instructions
- The day before cooking, place dried fruit, lemon zest and orange juice in a saucepan and bring just to the boil. Remove to a bowl, cover with plastic wrap and leave to soak overnight.
- The next day, heat oven to 150°C. Line a 20cm cake tin with cooking paper.
- Stir vanilla, baking soda, mixed spice, ground almonds and flour into the dried fruit mixture.
- Spread cake mixture into prepared cake tin. Bake for 2 hours or until a skewer comes out clean.
- Cool in tin for 30 minutes before removing cake to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Store in an airtight container.
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