Fiona's mincemeat cake

Name: Fiona's mincemeat cake
Total time: 3600 s
Yield: 16 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 115 grams butter; 115 grams caster sugar (regular white sugar); 3 each eggs; 340 grams mincemeat (the kind you get at Christmas in jars. its not meat but a mixture of currants cherries suet etc); 200 grams self raising flour; 1 dash milk

fifikins @fifikins

This recipe was originally given to me by my mother's friend after I had lots of mincemeat left at Christmas and was sick of mince pies. I changed the original recipe around in order to make it a lighter fruit cake. I hope you enjoy :-)

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Ingredients

1 hour

16 servings

115 gramsbutter
115 gramscaster sugar (regular white sugar)
3 eacheggs
340 gramsmincemeat (the kind you get at Christmas in jars. its not meat but a mixture of currants cherries suet etc)
200 gramsself raising flour
1 dashmilk

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Steps

1 hour

1

Grease a 7inch round cake tin
2

Cream butter and sugar together (ie beat together until it looks light)
3

Beat in eggs to the sugar and butter mix. Beat in one at a time until combined
4

Stir in the mincemeat and fold in the flour. The mixture should be moist and not too stiff add a little milk if necessary
5

Bake at 325°F for 10 minutes then lower to 300°F for 30-40 minutes the cake is ready when it shrinks from the sides of the pan
6

Make a coffee sit with your feet up and enjoy a slice :-)