Easy Christmas cake
- Serves 24-30 slices
- Prep time: 15 mins + cooling | Cooking time: 90 mins
Inspired by traditional Christmas cake, this fruit cake is an easy-to-throw-together version with only eight ingredients.
Ingredients
1 kg Pams dried fruit cake mix
2 large oranges
1 cup brown sugar
125g Pams pure butter
2 tsp mixed spice
3 eggs, beaten
2 cups self-raising flour
¼ cup whole almonds
Method
Grease and line the base and sides of a 23cm round cake tin with two layers of baking paper.
In a large saucepan, combine the dried fruit, orange zest, half a cup of freshly squeezed orange juice, brown sugar, butter and mixed spice over medium heat. Bring to a boil, then remove from the heat and transfer to a large bowl. Set aside to cool to room temperature.
Meanwhile preheat your oven to 160°C bake. Stir the eggs into the cooled fruit mixture, then sift in the flour and fold until just combined.
Transfer the mixture to the prepared cake tin and arrange the almonds on top, pressing gently into the mixture. Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes- 1 hour 25 minutes, or until firm and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out mostly clean.
Cool in the tin completely before slicing.