Name: Ginger beer boiled fruit cake recipe
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 150 min
Total time: 170 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: 1kg mixed dried fruit; 375ml (1.5 cups) Ginger Beer Bottle; 1 cup caster sugar; 250g butter; 4 eggs, lightly beaten; 2 cups self-raising flour

by Greer Worsley Last updated on 12/17/2024

This fruit cake has a long, slow baking time, but you can skip the lengthy fruit soaking process by boiling the dried fruit in ginger beer, which means the cake can be ready to eat the same day you start.

- Greer Worsley

Ingredients

1kg mixed dried fruit
375ml (1.5 cups) Woolworths Ginger Beer Bottle
1 cup caster sugar
250g butter
4 eggs, lightly beaten
2 cups self-raising flour

Method

Step 1

Place dried fruit, ginger beer, sugar and butter in a saucepan. Bring to the boil and stir until butter has melted and sugar has dissolved. Set aside to cool.
Step 2

Preheat oven to 140C. Grease a 20cm cake tin and line the base and sides with 2 layers of baking paper.
Step 3

Stir through eggs and fold through flour. Pour into prepared tin and bake for 2.5 hours until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cover with foil if the top is browning too quickly.