Fruit Cake with Almonds
A fruit cake with almonds in the Scottish style. Try this or one of our other recipes on Spoonsparrow.
Ingredients
- 1 apple
- 200 g sultanas
- 125 g currants
- 100 g chopped raisins
- 40 ml apple juice
- 1 tsp grated lemon zest
- 1 tsp grated orange zest
- 150 g butter
- 50 g rice syrup
- 3 eggs
- 200 g Spelt flour Type 1050
- 0.5 tsp Baking powder
- 75 g ground almonds (ground)
- 100 ml milk (3.5% fat)
- 75 g peeled almond kernels
Instructions
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1.
Peel, wash, and finely grate the apple. In a bowl combine sultanas, currants, apple zest, apple juice, raisins, and grated citrus zest.
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2.
Beat butter and rice syrup with an electric mixer until fluffy. Gradually add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Pour this mixture into the fruit bowl.
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3.
Sift flour and baking powder over the fruits and airy mixture; add ground almonds and milk. Stir all ingredients with a spoon until smooth, adding more or less milk if needed.
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4.
Transfer the batter to a parchment-lined pan and spread evenly. Decoratively arrange the peeled almond kernels on top of the cake surface.
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5.
Bake in a preheated oven at 160 °C (140 °C fan; gas: level 2) for about 60–80 minutes, checking with a skewer. If the cake darkens too much, cover it with foil. Let the cake rest in the pan for about 20 minutes, then cool on a wire rack.
