fruit cake

morganlefay

Thank you Butterfly Brain and Penny for the link. That cake looks just like it and being a Delia will doubtless be exactly as it should be when cooked and delicious. Thank you very much indeed ! :beer:

Penelope_Penguin

I'll add this to the existing fruit cake thread to keep recipes together

Penny. x

Katgoddess

I've just brought a mcvities festive fruity spice cake from the milkman for £1.20, thinking it's something I could reverse engineer and make myself.

From looking at the ingredients, its got brown sugar, mixed spice, dried fruit, and citrus peel in it to make it Christmassy. The entire loaf had 5 raisins in it, and I couldn't find any citrus in it either. It's kind of like a spongy loaf.

So before I reinvent the wheel, does anyone have a recipe for something similar?

I might start with weetabix cake and add Christmas fruit to it.

Thanks :beer:

Penelope_Penguin

Katgoddess wrote: »

So before I reinvent the wheel, does anyone have a recipe for something similar?

Just to clarify - is it more cake than bread loaf?

If it's cake, I'm supposing that you don;t want a christmas cake type thing, but more an everyday cake. Try a Dundee Cake recipe, and then adapt that to your taste

Katgoddess

It's definitely cake rather than bread, and has the texture of carrot cake. It has vegetable oil in it, rather than butter.

Dundee cake looks fab, but I'm looking for something a bit less fancy. I'm looking at recipes for spice cake now.

SDG31000

I'm not sure if it's the texture you are looking for, but I recommend Nigella's Non Cake Maker's Christmas Cake recipe. It's the one where you use a jar of mincemeat instead of dried fruit and it comes out all sticky and gooey and yummy. I hate traditional fruit cake and love this recipe. It's in her Feast book at the end of the Christmas section.

kate_pixie

Christmas is a great time for budget baking as the ingrediants are so cheap. Last week at Tesco I bought 6 x their value dried fruit bags, a bag of plain flour, brown sugar, eggs, cinammon, nutmeg, mixed spice, butter and suet for a tenner!! Oh yes a tenner! That's all the ingrediants I need to make christmas cake, christmas pud and five hundred years supply of mincemeat!

Sorry none of this was helpful but I thought I'd share the bargain joy! lol

tori.k

how about bara brith (welsh tea bread) would work out a bit cheaper then dundee cake, you could always add some whole almonds to the top to give it the dundee look

Vaila

tori.k wrote: »

how about bara brith (welsh tea bread) would work out a bit cheaper then dundee cake, you could always add some whole almonds to the top to give it the dundee look

i love making bara brith its so simple and cheap ie all you need is a teabag,sugar,dried fruit and egg and some s.r flour

freyasmum

This makes an amaaazing carrot cake. The reason I post it is because it's got the vegetable oils and brown sugars/etc that your cake had.

I don't add the walnuts, so I imagine you could add the same weight fruit - soak it first?

I think the amount of spice in it is perfect, but you could add a little more/different ones if you wanted.

Anyway, hopefully that's a basic recipe for you to get started with If not, try the carrot cake anyway, it's ace