Fruit & Nut Cake

Ingredients

Serves: 10

850g dried fruit & nuts mix
1 medium apple, grated (skin and flesh)
1 tbsp brandy
1/3 cup (50g) plain flour
2 tbsps self raising flour
1 tsp mixed spice
90g soft butter or dairy blend
1/3 cup CSR Smart® White Sugar Blend
2 x 59g eggs

Method

1. Preheat oven to 150°C conventional or 130° fan forced. Line the base and sides of a 20cm deep round cake pan with 1 layer of baking paper and 1 layer of brown paper.

2. Toss dried fruit & nuts, grated apple and brandy together. Sift flours and mixed spice.

3. Cream butter and Smart Sugar until light and creamy. Add eggs gradually and beat until combined. Fold in sifted dry ingredients and dried fruit & nut mix.

4. Spoon into prepared pan and press firmly into pan.

5. Bake for 1½ hrs or until cake is firm to touch. Cool in pan, then store in an airtight container in refrigerator for up to 1 month.

6. Enjoy with tea or coffee in thin wedges

Comments

If baking cake in a conventional oven at 150°C place on bottom rack in oven. This is the coolest section of the oven and will ensure a more moist cake.

If you are making your own dried fruit mix – use dried apricots, apples, sultanas, currant, dates, brazil nuts, almonds, walnuts or any other of your favourites.

Smart

CSR Smart - a blend of natural cane sugar with a pinch of stevia

CSR Smart is a natural alternative to traditional sweeteners. It is a unique blend of natural sugar cane with a pinch of Stevia, which is a high intensity natural sweetener extracted from the leaves of the Stevia Rebaudiana plant.

CSR Smart is part of the CSR better for you range. It is twice as sweet as regular sugar, so you use half as much, so half the calories, this makes CSR Smart the smarter, better for you option.

CSR Smart is available as both a white sugar blend, and fine raw sugar blend. Ideal for all your sweetening needs.