Photo: David Holifield
As you like it fruit cake
26 ingredients
Serves 10
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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!
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"
Directions
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By bbcgoodfood ·
Recipe sourced from
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