Fruitcake (vrugtekoek) | Rainbow Cooking

Ingredients

• 500 gram glazed fruit cake mix
• 125 gram pitted dates (chopped)
• 50 gram currants
• 100 gram seedless raisins or sultanas
• 50 gram cherries (pitted and quartered)
• 25 gram glazed mixed peel
• 50 gram nuts (roughly chopped)
• 500 gram glazed fruit mix
• 200 gram glazed fruit (roughly chopped) or fruit preserve, such as ginger, fig, pineapple, watermelon
• 120 gram pitted dates (chopped)
• 40 gram cherries (pitted and quartered)
• 1 teaspoon (5 ml) lemon juice
• 1 ½ teaspoon (7 ml) vanilla
• ½ teaspoon (3 ml) baking soda
• 1 ½ cup (160 gr) flour
• 1 ml salt
• 1 teaspoon (5 ml) baking powder
• ½ teaspoon (3 ml) mixed spice
• ½ teaspoon (3 ml) cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon (3 ml) ginger
• ¼ teaspoon (1 ml) grated nutmeg
• Dash of clove
• 100 gram butter
• ¼ cup (50 ml) sugar (if you are going to use mainly glazed fruits, you can use less sugar)
• ¼ cup (50 ml) golden syrup
• 3 eggs