Easy Butter Fruit Cake

Just an addition to the normal plain fruit cake that I have shared previously. It gives the cake a bit sophisticated fruity flavour rather than plain butter cake. Toss some dried fruit of your choice and make your own fruit cake in no time and everyone gonna love it :-)

Ingredients:

250 grams Unsalted butter, softened
225 grams Cake flour
225 grams Sugar
1 1/4 cup Dried mixed fruits (I used raisins, glace cherries, orange peel and sultanas)
5 Eggs
1 tsp Baking powder
1 tsp Vanilla extract
3/4 tsp Salt

How to do it?

Pre-heat oven to 180ºC. Grease and line a 8" round cake tin.

Sift together cake flour (leaving 1 tbsp to coat the dried mixed fruits), salt and baking powder. Using a balloon whisk, simply stir to combine.

Cream the softened butter until it is creamy. Add in sugar and continue to beat until light and fluffy. Once it is done, add in the eggs, one at a time and mixed well after each addition to prevent the mixture from curdle.

Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture in three batches. Fold well after each batch. Add in the mixed fruits and fold to combine.

Pour the cake batter into the cake tin and lightly swirl the tin in circular motion to evenly distribute the cake batter in the tin. Lightly tap the tin on the table to get rid of large air bubble trap inside the batter.

Bake in the pre-heated oven for 40 - 45 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Leave the cake in the tin for 10 minutes and turn it out onto a wire rack and let it cool. This cake is best served warm.