Low Fat Christmas Cake
Ingredients
- 300g Mixture of raisins
- dried apricots and candied fruit
- 225g Self Raising Flour
- 100g Brown Sugar
- 50g Butter
- 225ml you can use a different flavored tea hot tea..
- 80ml Mixture of Brandy and Orange juice
- 2 Eggs
- Grated grind of Orange Grind of a lemon
- A teaspoon Mixed Spice
- Extra for the surface Brown Sugar
- vanilla essence
This Christmas cake is especially good for those people who cannot eat a lot of fats due to a medical condition. These people should ALWAYS take their doctor's advice about the food they can eat.
Cut the apricots into small pieces and put them in a bowl. Add the rest of the other fruit mixture and the grated orange and lemon peel. Pour in the hot tea and the orange juice and brandy. Stir well and cover with cling film. Let the mixture stand for a minimum of 4 hoursor preferably allow it to sit overnight. Turn on the oven at 180C, gas number 4. Grease a round cake tin, of 20cm diameter, with margarine and dust it lightly with flour. Put the butter and sugar in a bowl and beat them well until the mixture becomes creamy- ideally use an electric mixer to get a better mixture! Add the eggs one by one and continue mixing. Add the flour little by little while you keep mixing all the time. Add the fruit mixture little by little and mix well. Pour the mixture into the mold, smooth the surface and sprinkle a little brown sugar on it. Bake for about an hour or until the skewer comes out clean when you insert it into the cake. Take the cake out of the oven and let it cool before removing it from the tin.
NOTE: Before baking the cake, place a dish of water in the bottom of the oven. The steam from the water helps to moisten the cake.
