Scrumptiously Healthy Christmas Cake - sugar free - fat free

Scrumptiously Healthy Christmas Cake - sugar free - fat free - egg free

This is my take on a healthy Christmas Cake, its packed full
of juicy fruit and has all the taste of the festive period. Tastes delicious as it is, or if you wanted to to, you could have with some nice warm homemade healthy custard.

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INGREDIENTS

2 cups of self-raising flour

1/2 cup of dried cranberries

1/2 cup mixed dried fruit

1 grated apple (medium)

cup of cranberry juice

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp mixed spice

METHOD

1. Preheat oven 180c

2. Line a baking tray with grease proof paper

3. Put the cranberries, mixed fruit and grated apple into a mixing a bowl and add the cranberry juice, mix well

4. Sieve the flour, baking powder, mixed spice and cinnamon into the wet mixture and mix well. If you should find the mixture is particularly stiff, add a little more cranberry juice

5. Pour mixture into your prepared tray and place in the oven on middle shelf for approx 45 minutes, but check every 20 minutes, if you should find the top browning before the cake is baked, cover loosely with some silver foil. To check cake is baked insert a skewer into cake, if it comes out clean cake is baked, if not place back in oven.

6. Place cake on cooling rack to cool and then slice to desired size

Cake can be frozen, but i'd slice the cake first and then you can take out a slice as and when you want one

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