Fruit Cake
A classic loaf-style fruit cake with candied fruit and raisins, baked on programme 18 of the bread-maker.
Ingredients
| 5 | eggs | |
| 165 g | sugar | |
| 1 sachet | vanilla sugar | |
| 1 pinch | salt | |
| 1½ tbsp | 23 ml | dark rum |
| 230 g | butter | |
| 330 g | fine flour (type 45) | |
| 2½ tsp | 13 ml | baking powder |
| 75 g | raisins | |
| 75 g | candied fruit |
Instructions
PROG. 18 — Fruit cake. Weight: 1000 g. Time: 2h08.
Add the eggs, sugar, vanilla sugar and salt to a mixing bowl. Whisk together for 5 minutes. Add the mixture to the bread pan of the bread-maker. Add the dark rum, the softened butter, the fine flour and the baking powder. Place the bread pan in the machine. Select programme 18 and the desired crust colour. Press the «Start/Stop» button. When the first beep sounds, (after 23 mins) add the raisins and the candied fruit. At the end of the programme, switch off the machine, take out the bread pan and remove the fruit cake. The illustration shows a medium-colour crust.