Fruitcake (vrugtekoek) | Rainbow Cooking

Fruitcake (vrugtekoek) | Rainbow Cooking

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A fruitcake that is mostly fruit, quite moist, and a bit spicy

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Ingredients

  • 860 to 900 grams fruit:
  • 500 grams glazed fruit cake mix
  • 125 grams pitted dates (chopped)
  • 50 grams currants
  • 100 grams seedless raisins or sultanas
  • 50 grams cherries (pitted and quartered)
  • 25 grams glazed mixed peel
  • 50 grams nuts (roughly chopped)
  • 500 grams glazed fruit mix
  • 200 grams glazed fruit (roughly chopped) or fruit preserve, such as ginger, fig, pineapple, watermelon
  • 120 grams pitted dates (chopped)
  • 40 grams 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 grams 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

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