fruit cake

AUTHOR
Janie Gentry
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 1
COOK TIME
90 mins
TOTAL TIME
90 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 25
  • 500 g Flour
  • 1 package Dry yeast
  • 125 ml Milk
  • 1 egg (size M)
  • 125 g Butter
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Sugar
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 1 package Vanillin sugar
  • 1/2 TEASPOON Cinnamon
  • 7-10 Tbsp grated rind of 1 untreated lemon
  • 100 g dried apricots
  • 100 g dried figs
  • 100 g colorful cherries
  • 100 g light raisins
  • 3 TABLESPOONS Apricot Jam
  • 7-10 Tbsp Raisins and cherries
  • 7-10 Tbsp Fat and breadcrumbs

Directions

  1. 1

    Mix flour and yeast. Warm the milk lukewarm. Pour into the flour mixture and knead with the dough hooks of the hand mixer. Add egg, soft butter, sugar, salt, vanilla sugar, cinnamon and lemon peel and knead. Cover and leave to rise in a warm place for about 30 minutes. Meanwhile dice the apricots and figs. Halve the cherries.

  2. 2

    Work prepared fruits and raisins into the dough. Form oblong. Place in a greased box form (approx. 30 cm long) sprinkled with breadcrumbs. Cover and leave to rise for about 1 hour. Then bake in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 3) for about 45 minutes. Let the fruit cake cool down and sprinkle with warmed jam. Decorate with small flowers of raisins and cherries

  3. 3

    Waiting time approx. 90 minutes

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
170 kcal
CARBS
27 g
FATS
5 g
PROTEINS
3 g