shire_kitchen | "My" Christmas cake

I don't eat much cake - not even at Christmas, but there are two things I just need when it is Christmas. One is ginger nuts and the other is a fruitcake, probably known to most of you in one way or other, but here is the recipe we use. Note: This portion is halved.

120 gram butter
190 gram sugar
3 eggs
1 decilitre sour cream
115 gram plain wheat flour
1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon clove
1/2 teaspoon baking soda

115 grams of finely choppped dried figs, dried apricots and candied peel
225 grams rasins
115 grams dades
1 pack coctail berries
1 1/2 decilitre crushed pineapple
110 grams nuts

Cut all the fruit in small pieces, the most important is that the total ammount of fruit and nuts is ca 1/2 kg. Instead of nuts you can use more fruit. Mix this with some of the flour.
Whip butter and suger till it becomes white. Add eggs, sour cream and flour a bit at the time in the batter. Add the fruit mix as the last thing you do.

Bake at 125 C in 30 minutes. Butter the pan well and also use baking paper. The cake does not swell much. If you are afraid that it might be too baked on the top, add some baking paper on the top of it afer a while.

Let it cool, cut it in sizable pieces and wrap in alluminium foil and put in the fridge. It is best if made a few weeks before eaten and can last for a couple of months. Yummy!

Good luck!

Now I^m off to get the ingredients and bake!

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