Name: Boiled Cherry Fruit Cake recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 105 min
Total time: 115 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: australian
Ingredients: 200g butter, chopped; 375g pkt mixed dried fruit; 200g glace cherries, plus extra to serve; 1 cup brown sugar; 1/4 cup dry sherry; 1 cup self-raising flour; 1 cup plain flour; 2 tsp mixed spice; 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 3 eggs, lightly whisked; Icing sugar, to dust

by alicea67 Last updated on 11/18/2019

Celebrate Christmas with this old-fashioned boiled fruit cake spiked with sherry and dotted with glace cherries. - alicea67

Ingredients

200g butter, chopped
375g pkt mixed dried fruit
200g glace cherries, plus extra to serve
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup dry sherry
1 cup self-raising flour
1 cup plain flour
2 tsp mixed spice
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
3 eggs, lightly whisked
Icing sugar, to dust

Method

Step 1

Place the butter, mixed fruit, cherries, brown sugar, sherry and 1 cup water in a saucepan over medium heat. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes. Set aside to cool.
Step 2

Preheat oven to 160C/140C fan forced. Line the base and side of a round 20cm cake pan with baking paper
Step 3

Add the flours, mixed spice, bicarbondate of soda and eggs to the fruit mix and stir until well combined. Pour into the prepared pan. Bake for 55 mins or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. Set aside to cool in the pan.
Step 4

Dust with icing sugar and top with extra cherries to serve.