Fruit cake

Name: Fruit cake
Total time: 5400 s
Yield: 5 people
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 250 g self raising flour; 165 g butter; 4 eggs; 170 g brown sugar; 1 tsp mixed spices; 1 tablespoon vanilla essence; 1/2 cup raisins, soaked in juice or brandy overnight

Mitch 👑 @cook_14764586

Nairobi, Kenya

Simple fruit cake topped with ice cream. The recipe makes 1kg #recipemarathon

Mitch 👑 @cook_14764586

Nairobi, Kenya

Simple fruit cake topped with ice cream. The recipe makes 1kg #recipemarathon

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Ingredients

1hr 30mins

5 people

250 gself raising flour
165 gbutter
4eggs
170 gbrown sugar
1 tspmixed spices
1 tablespoonvanilla essence
1/2 cupraisins, soaked in juice or brandy overnight

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Steps

1hr 30mins

1

Combine sugar and margarine in a bowl and beat together using a mixer or a whisk until light and fluffy. Add eggs one by one as you mix and vanilla essence.
2

Combine flour, baking powder and mixed spices into a bowl. Pour the flour mixture into the sugar - margarine mixture and mix together. Throw in the raisins and mix then pour the batter into your baking tin.
3

Bake at 180°C for 1 hour. Optional: prepare buttercream as your cake cools. Beat the margarine until light and add icing sugar gradually. Apply the buttercream onto the cake as you may wish.
4

Serve with ice cream for dessert or as a snack on a hot afternoon