Low Fat Low Sugar Fruitcake Recipes

Steps:

• Grease and line with parchment paper an 8 inch cake pan.
• Sift the flour,baking powder and apple pie mix into a bowl.
• Rub the butter with your fingers until it looks like breadcrumbs.
• Carefully stir in the chopped apricots, dates, and candies cherries and raisins with the milk, beaten eggs ,grated rind and orange juice.
• Stir in the honey and mix everything together to a soft dropping conistency.
• Spoon the mixture into the prepared pan and level the surface.
• Bake in a preheated oven at 350oF for 1 hour until a knife inserted in the centre comes out clean.
• Let the pan cool before turning out.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 200 degrees Celsius.
• Mix sultanas, raisins, cherries, brandy, water and soak overnight.
• Mix pumpkin, eggs, applice juice, and milk in a bowl.
• Add soaked fruit, nuts, rinds and spices, then flours and bicarbonate of soda.
• Mix well with a wooden spoon as you add the flours.
• Spoon into a lightly greased tin.
• Bake for 10 minutes at 200 degrees C, then turn down to 180 degrees C and cook until baked through (approximately 1 hour).
• Cool on a cake wire.
• Store in the refrigerator.

Steps:

• Mix the mixed vine fruits in the cognac or whiskey.
• Melt the chopped dates in the 4 tbsps. water very slowly mixing all the time, over low heat. Mix with the vine fruits. Let the mixture stand in a cool place for 3 to 6 hours.
• Sift the flour, baking powder and the mixed spice, add the rinds and the chopped nuts.
• Mix the flour mixture with the fruit mixture well and put the cake mixture in a greased loaf tin measuring approximately 12cms. x 22cms.
• Bake in a preheated oven, gas mark 4 or 195 degrees celius for about 50 mins. Check with a skewer. If it comes out clean, then the cake will be ready.
• Let cool for about 1 hour.