Fruit cake with orange buttercream

Name: Fruit cake with orange buttercream
Total time: 5100 s
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 250 g all purpose flour; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 4 eggs; 175 g sugar; 175 g margarine; 1/2 cup raisins (soaked overnight in orange juice or in brandy); 1 tablespoon vanilla essence; 1 teaspoon Mixed spices; 500 g icing sugar; 200 g margarine

Mitch 👑 @cook_14764586

Nairobi, Kenya

Amateur in decorating #themechallenge

Mitch 👑 @cook_14764586

Nairobi, Kenya

Amateur in decorating #themechallenge

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Ingredients

1 hr 25 minutes

8 servings

250 gall purpose flour
1 teaspoonbaking powder
4eggs
175 gsugar
175 gmargarine
1/2 cupraisins (soaked overnight in orange juice or in brandy)
1 tablespoonvanilla essence
1 teaspoonMixed spices
500 gicing sugar
200 gmargarine

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Steps

1 hr 25 minutes

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. As the cake cools prepare your buttercream. Beat the margarine until light and add icing sugar gradually. Apply the buttercream onto the cake as you may wish.