Preparation time: 2 hours
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Serves: 8
Description
Discover how to make a delicious and moist fruit cake in minutes with this quick and easy microwave recipe. Perfect for beginners, this spiced fruit cake is packed with dried fruits and warm spices, making it a delightful treat any time of year without the need for an oven.
Ingredients
- Ingredient A
- 250g butter
- 375g box dry fruit mix
- 1 cup sugar
- 75g orange peel
- 1 cup water
- 50g snipped cherries
- ½ tsp soda bicarbonate
- Ingredient B
- 3 large eggs
- ½ tsp vanilla essence
- Ingredient C
- 250g flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- Ingredient D
- 1tsp mixed spice
- 1tsp cinnamon
- 1tsp ground ginger
- Note: Dish to be 7 round and lightly grease the dish, put wax/tracing paper in the bottom of the dish.
Method
Ingredient A
- Cook butter in pot till melt on small fire.
- Add in water, sugar, dry fruit mix, orange peel, cherries and soda bicarbonate. Stir it till the colour turn brown.
- Let the mixture cold at the room temperature. Do not put it in the fridge.
Ingredient B
- Whisk flour and baking powder together.
Ingredient C
- Beaten the eggs and vanilla essence together.
Step-by-step:
- Now you already have three (3) portions of mixture. Mix it 1/3 of portion part by part and stir it and repeat it till complete. Once complete, to add in Ingredient D “ mixed spice, cinnamon and ground ginger and stir.
- Pre-heat the microwave for 3-4 minutes.
- Pour in the mixture into the dish and microwave 8-10 minutes on medium high (70%)
Note: Adjustment on the microwave is depending on the brand and model used. For this cake, I am using Sharp Microwave Oven R-397J(S) with 1100w.