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Golden Fruit Cake

This is a great alternative to traditional rich fruit cake – perfect if you’ve left the baking of your Christmas Cake until the last minute (or indeed if you prefer a lighter cake)!

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• Ingredients
• • 100g (3½oZ) butter
  • 100g (3½oZ) golden caster sugar
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 50g (2oZ) self raising flour
  • 100g (3½oZ) Polenta (cornmeal)
  • 1tsp baking powder
  • 225g (8oZ) mixed dried fruit
  • 1tbsp marmalade
  • 1tsp cinnamon
  • 2tbsps milk
  • 2tbsps Demerara sugar, to finish

Method

Central Heating & Freestanding Models: Set the oven thermostat to 180°C

1. Grease and line an 18cm (7”) cake tin
2. Beat together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy
3. Add the beaten eggs and stir in the flour, Polenta and baking powder
4. Add the fruit, marmalade, cinnamon and milk
5. Spoon into the prepared tin and bake for 1½ hours as set out below (or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean)
6. Sprinkle with Demerara sugar and leave to cool in the tin. Decorate with sliced almonds or whole nuts if desired

Central Heating & Freestanding models: On shelf position 3 of the top oven

Classic & 2 Oven Models: Place the solid shelf on shelf position 2 and bake on th egrid shelf on position 4 of the roasting oven.

Universal & 4 Oven Models: As above or towards the top of the baking oven and add 15-30 minutes to the cooking time.