Raisins and almond Fruit cake
The most important feeling is belonging to someone or something. For me it is feeling of home, safety and love. I’m person who feel this connection through seasons differently. I feel summers’ warm sun and air and it reminds me sun reflections on kitchen cealing when I saw them first as a kid and I that that tiny rabbits have visisted me and want to play with.
Summer is full of light colours and sweet air. It is still summer time but unfortunately here in Middle of England it is autumn in full pride. Breezey and chilly air with barely warm evenings and all I want is just to put my cardigan on, put warm socks and make cup of tea to warm up. So, I’m turning my back to all fresh and tasty summer dishes and all I have in my mind is warm colour autumn vegies and stew. And all these delicious cookies and cakes what we having with evening tea. I will open this season, which is my favorite time of year, with delicious Raisins and almond fruit cake.
Prepare time: 30 min
Cooking time: 90 min
Serves: 6
250 g/8 oz margarine
250 g/8 oz caster sugar
3 large eggs
10 g/2 tsp vanilla sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 cup self-raising flour
100 g/3 oz almond crumb
100 g/3 oz raisins
Preheat the oven to 180 C/ 350 F.
Put bowl with margarine on top of boiling hot pot of water and melt all margarin in to liquid consistency. Then remove it from pot of water. Make sure you don’t over heat margarine and it is not start to boil.
Add sugar and mix very well until sugar is half melted.
Add eggs and mix well.
Sift the flour, vanilla sugar and baking powder and and mix well until you get smooth paste.
Just like that. It’s already smell nice and tasty.
Put raising in separate bowl and sift with a bit of flour. Make sure they all are cover in flour so they will keep texture and not melt when you will bake cake in oven.
Add raisins and almonds to mixture and mix well.
Pour into prepared cake tin and put in the preheated oven. Bake for 90 min, or undil goled and risen, and a skewer inserted into the cake centre of the cake comes out clean. Remove from the tin and leave to cool on chop board. Sift with icing sugar for decoration.
