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Place mixed fruit, apricots, undrained pineapple, orange juice and spice in a saucepan. Home » Easy Bakes » Eggless Christmas Fruit Cake - no sugar added. Eggless Christmas Fruit Cake - no sugar added.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook christmas cake (no added sugar) using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Cake (no added sugar):
- Get 175 g dried apricots, diced
- Get 6 tbsp water
- Make ready 150 mls olive oil
- Make ready 5 large eggs
- Get 175 g plain wholewheat flour
- Get 2 tsp mixed spice
- Get 1 lemon, zest & juice
- Prepare 1 orange, zest & juice
- Prepare 175 g raisins
- Prepare 125 g dried mixed fruit
- Get 225 g currants
- Take 175 g sultanas
- Prepare 100 g dried cherries
- Get 40 g flaked almonds
The Beatrice Bakery No Sugar Added Fruitcake is a great Christmas cake for people who are watching their sugar intake or who find traditional cakes too sweet for their liking. Sugar free Christmas cakes can easily be made using no sugar jam or honey as a sweetener. The high content of dried fruit also helps. Make sugar free versions of marzipan and icing too.
Instructions to make Christmas Cake (no added sugar):
- Add the diced apricots and the water to a pan and simmer gently until the apricots have absorbed the water and nice and soft.
- Allow the apricots to cool then blend in a food processor until finely minced (or mince with a sharp knife if you don’t have a food processor).
- Put the rest of the dried fruit into a large mixing bowl. Add the zest and juice of the lemon and orange, stir really well and let the fruit soak up the juices.
- In the largest mixing bowl you have, whisk together the oil and minced apricot puree until it is as well combined as you can get it. Whisk in the eggs until all of the ingredients are combined.
- Sift in the flour and spice, mix gently to combine all of the dry ingredients into the wet egg mixture.
- Stir in the rest of your ingredients.
- Pour into an 8 inch cake tin lined with parchment paper. Tie a strip of parchment paper around the outside of your tin with string.
- Bake at 150°C for 3 hours, or until a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
This healthy gluten free Christmas fruit cake is a family recipe that has been tweaked and modified over the years. There is no added sugar, butter or eggs, and sorghum flour is used in place of self raising white flour (though almond meal would work equally as well). Soft and moist - perfect with a digestive herbal tea after Christmas dinner. The cake also freezes well (as with it being sugar free does not keep quite as well as a traditional cake). You can also make this cake with gluten free flour for coeliacs.
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