A quick and easy fruit cake for tea time that tastes best fresh out of the oven. You can use any mixed dried fruit you like, including cherries.
Ingredients
- ¾ cups self-rising flour: 1 piece
- unsalted butter: 0.5 cup
- ¼ cups dried mixed fruit: 1 piece
- white sugar: 0.5 cup
- white sugar: 1 Tbsp
- mixed spice: 1 tsp (optional)
- milk: 5 Tbsp
- egg: 1 piece
- light brown sugar: 2 Tbsp (or as needed)
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Stages of cooking
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter a 6-inch round cake pan.
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Place flour in a bowl. Rub butter into the flour until mixture resembles fine bread crumbs. Add mixed fruit, 1 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar, and mixed spice. Stir to combine. Add milk and egg and mix until batter is soft and easy to drop.
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Drop batter into the prepared pan. Sprinkle light brown sugar on top and pat down with the back of a spoon.
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Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 1 to 1 1/4 hours.
