Recipe: Appetizing Boiled fruit cake

Boiled fruit cake. This Easy (Boiled) Fruit Cake is a much simpler version of the traditional British fruit cake. Yet it contains all the necessary ingredients. This sticky cake is quick and easy to make and will keep well if stored in an airtight container.

This deliciously rich and fruity cake is frequently requested by Dairy Diary readers. Add flour and eggs and stir well. This moist, tender, boozy fruit cake from Andrew Zimmern gets its amazing texture from boiling the This easy and forgiving recipe is inspired by a boiled fruit cake Andrew Zimmern tasted when visiting. You can cook Boiled fruit cake using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Boiled fruit cake

1. You need 1 cup of water.
2. It's 1 cup of caster sugar.
3. You need 1 lb of dried fruit.
4. You need 6 oz of margarine.
5. You need 1 tsp of bicarbonate of soda.
6. Prepare 2 of eggs.
7. It's 2 cup of self raising flour.

In this Easy fruit cake recipe we don't need any soaking of dry fruits; but still the raisins,candied peels,cranberries and other dried fruits will be juicy and plumpy as they are boiled in liquid and then. By this simmering/boiling process, fruits will plump up similar to the soaked fruits. hence the name is 'Boiled fruit' cake. The texture of this eggless boiled fruit cake is soft and moist. A Very Moist Fruit Cake - passed down from my nan.

Boiled fruit cake step by step

1. In a large saucepan, mix all of the ingredients apart from the flour, eggs and bicarbonate of soda..
2. Simmer for 15 minutes..
3. Allow the mix to cool completely..
4. Whilst cooling, line a large cake tin with greased baking paper and preheat the oven to 302° F/ 150°C..
5. Beat in the eggs..
6. Sift in the flour and bicarbonate of soda and then fold everything together..
7. Pour into the tin and bake for 1 1/2 hours on the middle shelf of the oven..
8. Leave to cool in the tin..

This recipe has been submitted by the Good Food community. Wrap in wax paper and aluminum foil to store. It's not a fancy fruit cake but something for everyday. Take of heat and add the bicarb soda, stirring through, mixture will foam up a bit. With it being the summer holidays, the girls and I have done lots of picnics on our days out and this cake is excellent for picnics.