Unlike the dried fruit cake recipes common in New Zealand, this cake has a wet mixture. Our recipe is based on one from an Israeli book, although we had to reduce the quantities significantly to fit in our 20 cm x 20 cm cake tin.
Fresh Fruit Cake
Ingredients
- 70 grams butter
- 2/3 cups sugar
- 3 egg yolks keep the whites for later
- 1 heaped cup of flour
- 2 tablespoons cornflour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 tablespoons orange juice
- 3 egg whites
- 3/4 - 1 kg fruit fruit (apricots, plumes, blueberries), clean and stoned, chopped
- Icing Sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180º C
- Mix butter, sugar and egg yolks until a light and fluffy
- Mix dry ingredients in a separate bowl
- Add orange juice and the dry ingredients to egg mixture
- Beat egg whites until it has little peaks
- Mix gently into the cake mixture.
- Lay the resulting mixture in the bottom of a greased 20 cm x 20 cm square cake tin
- Lay fruit on top of cake mixture
- Bake at 180º C for 40-50 minutes until golden. The cake mixture will rise through the fruit layer.
- Remove and leave to cool.
- Dust with icing sugar