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As you like it fruit cake
Photo: David Holifield

As you like it fruit cake

26 ingredients Serves 10 openrecipes

this is a wonderful and easy fruit cake that has as many variations-especially if like me you find it hard to stick to a recipe! This is my nans recipe and we are Welsh-but there is no choice to give this a welsh cuisine label below so have picked english!

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

1484
Calories
29g
Protein
52g
Fat
231g
Carbs

Counts 20 of 23 ingredients — the other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 20 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Coconut 1/2 cup shredded (40g) 283
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Apple Juice 1 medium (182g) 95
Cherry 1 cup (138g) 87
Blueberry 1 cup (148g) 84
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Grape 1/2 cup (76g) 62
Orange 1 medium (131g) 62
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Rum 1/2 oz (15ml) 32
Walnut 1 walnut half (4g) 26
Pecan 1 half (4g) 20
Apricot 1 medium (35g) 17
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Clove 1 tsp ground (2g) 7
Cinnamon 1 tsp ground (2.6g) 6
Allspice 1 tsp ground (1.9g) 5
Ginger 1 tsp grated fresh (2g) 2
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Fruit not in our table 0
Brandy not in our table 0
Spirit not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • I USE CUPS AS I FIND IT SO MUCH EASIER
  • 1 cup golden raisins
  • 1 cup currants
  • 1/2 cup sun dried cranberries
  • 1/2 cup sun dried blueberries
  • 1/2 cup sun dried cherries
  • 1/2 cup dried apricots, chopped
  • [so the as u like part here is that you need 4 cups total of dried fruit so play with flavours!]
  • Zest of one lemon, chopped coarsely
  • Zest of one orange, chopped coarsely
  • 1/4 cup candied ginger, chopped-if not fussed on ginger substitute with glace cherries etc
  • 1 cup gold rum [coconut] quantro [if more cranberries used] brandy, southern comfort etc
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 5 ounces unsalted butter (1 1/4 sticks)
  • 1 cup unsweetened apple juice /orange juice/ mixed juice again to your liking.
  • 4 whole cloves, ground
  • 6 allspice berries, ground
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/4 to 1/2 cup walnut or pecans, broken
  • spirit used for "feeding"

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By bbcgoodfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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