Cake - fruit
Preparation time:
Recipe highlights Serves: 12
- Suitable to freeze
- Store in airtight container
- Dairy free
- Egg free
- Nut free
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Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cup strong tea
1 3/4 cup dried mixed fruit
8 apricots, dried or tinned, chopped
8 dates or prunes, dried, chopped
1 cup white self-raising flour
3/4 cup wholemeal self-raising flour
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon mixed spice
Cooking method
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1. Add tea to fruit and leave to soak overnight, or until tea is cold.
2. Sift flours and spices, then add the fruit and tea mixture.
3. Put in a cake/loaf tin, lined with greaseproof paper.
4. Bake at 150°C for 60 to 75 minutes or until cooked. (Insert a fine skewer in the cake and when it comes out clean, the cake is cooked.)
Nutritional facts
 | Average quantity per Serving | Average quantity per 100g |
| Weight (g) | 81.14g | 100.00g |
| Energy (kJ) | 668.99kJ | 824.51kJ |
| Protein (g) | 2.87g | 3.54g |
| Total fat (g) | 0.40g | 0.49g |
| - Saturated fat (g) | 0.05g | 0.06g |
| - Polyunsaturated fat (g) | 0.14g | 0.17g |
| - Monounsaturated fat (g) | 0.03g | 0.03g |
| Cholesterol (mg) | 0.00mg | 0.00mg |
| Carbohydrate-available (g) | 34.18g | 42.13g |
| CarbohydrateSE (g) | 33.94g | 41.84g |
| - Sugars (g) | 20.43g | 25.17g |
| Water (g) | 37.80g | 46.58g |
| Dietary fibre (g) | 3.56g | 4.39g |
| Thiamin (mg) | 0.07mg | 0.08mg |
| Riboflavin (mg) | 0.03mg | 0.04mg |
| Niacin (mg) | 1.02mg | 1.26mg |
| Niacin equivalents (mg) | 1.54mg | 1.89mg |
| Vitamin C (mg) | 1.71mg | 2.11mg |
| Total folate (ug) | 11.07ug | 13.65ug |
| Total vitamin A equivalents (ug) | 35.49ug | 43.74ug |
| Retinol (ug) | 0.00ug | 0.00ug |
| Beta carotene equivalents (ug) | 211.05ug | 260.11ug |
| Sodium (mg) | 183.33mg | 225.95mg |
| Potassium (mg) | 272.44mg | 335.77mg |
| Magnesium (mg) | 24.46mg | 30.15mg |
| Calcium (mg) | 34.34mg | 42.32mg |
| Phosphorus (mg) | 170.37mg | 209.97mg |
| Iron (mg) | 0.97mg | 1.20mg |
| Zinc (mg) | 0.31mg | 0.38mg |
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Source: Cabrini Nutrition Department
This recipe was orginally published as:
Fruit cake
Recipe publication date on: 08/02/2001
Last reviewed on: 20/08/2014
