Afternoon Fruit and Cheese Cake, a Welsh recipe from the Worldwide Gourmet

Ingredients

• - 250 g (9 oz.) flour
• - 1 tbsp. baking powder
• - A pinch of salt
• - 250 g (9 oz.) butter
• - 250 g (9 oz.) dark brown sugar
• - 4 eggs
• - 1 tsp. vanilla
• - A pinch of mixed spice (nutmeg, cinnamon, cardamom)
• - Zest of 1 lemon
• - 100 g (3 1/2 oz.) dried aprictos or other dried fruit
• - 75 g (3 oz.) raisins
• - 50 g (2 oz.) chopped walnuts or hazelnuts
• - 2 apples, peeled and grated
• - 125 g (5 oz.) Caerphilly cheese or other mild cheese, grated
• - 1 tbsp. rum