Easy Melt-And-Mix Fruit Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 kg mixed dried fruit
35 g flaked almonds, toasted
2 tbsp sweet sherry
2 tsp vanilla extract
250 g brown sugar
250 g butter, chopped
125 ml milk
3 None large eggs, lightly beaten
450 g plain flour
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 tsp mixed spice

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 120\u00b0C/100\u00b0C fan/gas 1. Grease a deep 22cm-diameter cake tin or 19cm-square cake tin, cover the base and sides with 2 layers of brown paper and 2 layers of baking paper, bringing the paper 5cm above the edge of the tin.
Combine the dried fruit, nuts, sherry, vanilla and sugar in a large bowl. Combine the butter and milk in a small saucepan, stir over the heat, without boiling, until the butter has melted.
Add the butter mixture, eggs and sifted dry ingredients to the fruit mixture and mix well. Spread into the prepared tin. Bake for 5 hours, or until a skewer comes out clean. Cover hot cake with foil; cool in tin.