Spiced Raisin Cake

Total Time: 2 hrs Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 2 cups raisins
• 250 g butter
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon lemon rind, grated
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon, ground
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, ground
• 2 tablespoons apricot jam
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup nuts, whole, roasted, mixed

Recipe

• 1 put raisins in a saucepan and cover with water. bring to the boil and simmer 15 minutes. drain.
• 2 chop butter into small pieces and stir into hot fruit.
• 3 beat eggs, sugar and lemon rind until combined.
• 4 sift flour, baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg together and add to the fruit with the egg mixture.
• 5 spoon the mixture into a 20cm round tin, (line the bottom with baking paper). bake at 160 c for 1 - 1 1/2 hours or until cake springs back when lightly touched.
• 6 cool cake in tin 10 minutes before turning out on to a wire rack.
• 7 when cold, brush top of cake with jam and scatter over chopped toffee nuts.
• 8 toffee nuts:- melt sugar gently in a heavy-based fry pan until it starts to colour. do not stir.
• 9 add nuts and pour out on a greased oven tray to cool.
• 10 when cold, chop nuts roughly.