This cake has all of the flavours of Christmas, however received't take ages to make – you’ll be able to beautify it any approach you want. Very best for a marriage cake too

• Preparation and cooking time
  • Prep:15 minutes
  • Prepare dinner:1 hr
• Straightforward
• Cuts into 12 slices

• Freezable

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Elements

• 200g butter, softened plus additional for greasing
• 200g darkish muscovado sugar
• 3 eggs, crushed
• 1 tbsp black treacle
• 200g self-raising flour
• 2 tsp combined spice
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 2 consuming apples, grated (approx 100g every)
• 300g combined sultanas and raisins

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Methodology

• STEP 1

  Warmth oven to 180C/fan 160C/fuel 4. Butter and line the underside of a deep, spherical 20cm cake tin with greaseproof paper. Beat the primary seven elements collectively in a big bowl (electrical hand- beaters are finest for this), till pale and thick. Utilizing a big metallic spoon, gently fold within the fruit till evenly mixed.

• STEP 2

  Spoon the batter into the tin and bake for 50 mins-1 hr or till the cake is darkish golden, springy to the contact and has shrunk away from the tin barely. A skewer inserted into the centre will come out clear when it’s prepared. Cool utterly earlier than adorning. Will preserve, wrapped in an hermetic container or iced, for as much as per week, or could be frozen un-iced for as much as a month – defrost totally earlier than adorning.