Easy Moist Fruit Cake - Cakes by MK

Ingredients

• ¾ cups unsalted butter
• ¾ cups soft brown sugar
• 2 cups dried fruits (I used a combination of sultanas, raisins, currants, red and green glace cherries and citrus peel (see note 1))
• ½ cup dates (pitted and cut into small pieces, see note 2)
• ⅔ cups store bought sweetened orange juice (like Just Juice, Tropicana etc.)
• 1½ tbsp orange zest (the zest of about 1 medium sized orange. The juice of the orange will be used later in the syrup.)
• 2 tbsp molasses
• 1¾ cups all purpose flour
• 1½ tsps baking powder
• ½ tsp salt (omit if using salted butter)
• 1½ tsps cinnamon powder
• ½ tsp ground ginger powder
• ¼ tsp nutmeg
• 1 tsp all spice
• ¼ cup unflavoured vegetable oil (I use canola oil)
• 3 large eggs (room temperature)
• 1 cup walnuts (halved)
• 3 tbsp freshly squeezed orange juice
• 1¾ tbsp white granulated sugar