Home-baking, you really can’t beat it. Our Fruit Cake with Dried Prunes is a super-versatile bake. Studded with walnuts and cranberries and flavoured with honey and ginger, it’s delicious eaten warm, straight from the oven, as a teatime treat. But it’s scrummy toasted and buttered – as an extra-special breakfast - too.
Ingredients
250 g Sunsweet prunes
4 tablespoons water (or rum)
500 g flour
2 small packets instant dry yeast
100 g butter, softened
2 medium eggs
80 g sugar
2 tablespoons honey
4 level teaspoons ginger spice mix
125 ml milk (room temperature)
50 g walnuts
80 g whole dried cranberries
2 tablespoons flour
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 160° C . Puree prunes with water.
- Mix flour and yeast. Add butter, eggs, sugar, honey, ginger, milk and prune puree. Mix all together with a hand mixer until dough is smooth. Cover dough and let rise at warm room temperature for about 45 min.
- Chop the walnuts and mix with prunes, cranberries and flour. Stir dough on floured surface, flatten and spread the plum mix on it. Fold the dough with prune and the mix well, make sure that the fruits are covered with the dough. Shape dough oblong shape and put into a well greased square baking pan (12” long). Let rise again for 45min.
- Bake the fruit cake for approx. 45-50 minutes
