Boiled Fruit Cake Recipe NZ

Ingredients

500g mixed dried fruit
water
250g butter
1½ cups Chelsea White Sugar
3 eggs, beaten
3 cups Edmonds Standard Grade Flour
4 tsp Edmonds Baking Powder
½ tsp almond essence
½ tsp vanilla essence

Method

Grease a 23cm square tin and line it with baking paper. Tie a double thickness of brown paper around the outside of the tin.
Put the mixed dried fruit into a large saucepan and add just enough water to cover the fruit. Cover and bring to the boil then remove from the heat.
Stir in the butter and sugar, stirring constantly until the butter has melted. Set aside to cool. Preheat the oven to 160ºC.
Mix the beaten eggs into the cooled mixture. Sift the flour and baking powder together the add to the fruit mixture and lastly add the essences. Scoop the mixture into the prepared cake tin then wet your hand under the cold tap and smooth the surface.
Bake the cake below the centre of the oven for 1–1½ hours or until an inserted skewer comes out clean. Cool in the tin on a wire rack, covered with a clean cloth.

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Suz, Nelson

I have never heard of tying paper around the outside of a tin before. Is this a typo? Mum would put several rounds inside the tin she used and a butter paper on top of several layers of grease proof paper on the bottom of the tin as well. I'm keen to try it that way.

Mpho

Thanks

Susan

Where do I get brown paper from? Can I use baking paper instead?

Rie

I have not baked the boiled fruit cake but would like to ask if I am to double the recipe, does that mean I will also have to use 1kg of sultanas? Appreciate your early reply, thank you.

EDMONDS: Thanks for your question, if you were to double the recipe, yes, this would call for 1kg of mixed dried fruit (as the original recipe uses 500g), Just a note that it doesn't need to be just sultanas, you can vary the dried fruit to include all your favourites.

Deanne Willemse

Should it be fan bake? Or no fan bake?

EDMONDS: Thanks for your question! If the bake setting is not specified then you can use Regular Bake.

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