200 g Butter
200 g Sugar
200 g Self raising flour
4 lg Eggs
200 g Dried fruit of choice
-(apricots, raisins, dates,
-figs, cherries, etc.)
100 ml Liqueur; your favorite
1 pn Salt
1 ts Cinnamon
1 ds Ground cloves
1/4 ts Cardamom; fresh ground;
-otherwise more
Preheat the oven at 175°C / 350°F.
Cut the dried fruit in little pieces and soak it in the liqueur for at
least 30 minutes. Mix the butter and sugar well and add the eggs one
by one. Mix in the other ingredients and put the mixture in a greased
cake or bundt pan or mini bundt pans. And now for the slightly harder
part: this cake takes a while to bake, so have some patience. If you
make the big cake with all of the ingredients from the recipe it
takes at least an hour to 70 minutes, depending on your oven. For a
cake with half the ingredients (perfect for sharing with a few
friends) it takes about 45 minutes. Just keep an eye on the process.
