Enjoy your Christmas cake without worrying about your waistline with this healthy christmas cake recipe
Ingredients
- 600g mixed dried fruit or a mix of raisins, diced dried apricots and sultanas
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla bean extract or paste
- 1⁄4 teaspoon nutmeg
- Zest and juice from 1 orange
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 3 organic eggs
- 250g (2 cups) ground almonds
- 50 g walnuts
Method
- Preheat your oven to 160°C fan forced.
- Prepare a 20cm round cake tin with baking paper lining the sides and the base.
- Combine dried fruit, spice, vanilla, orange zest + juice, olive oil and eggs.
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Add the almonds and walnuts and mix through.
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Spoon cake batter into your baking tin.
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Bake for 1 hour and 30 minutes. Check with a skewer to see if it comes out clean, if not bake for another 20-30 minutes.
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Cover the top if necessary to prevent over-browning.
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Cool, then remove from the tin and store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 1 month