Ingredients:
• 500 g – fruitcake mix
• 1 cup – Sugar
• 1 cup – water
• 250 g – Butter or margarine
• 1 tsp – bicarbonate of soda
• 1 tbsp – smooth Apricot jam
• 2 cups – flour
• 2 tbsp – mixed spice
• 2 – extra-large eggs, whisked
• a pinch – salt
• 1 tsp – baking powder
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 140 degrees C and prepare a 22-cm cake tin.
- Bring the fruitcake mix, sugar, water and butter or margarine to the boil and simmer for 5 mins.
- Remove from the heat and add the bicarbonate of soda (it will froth) and apricot jam. Leave to cool.
- Add the remaining ingredients and mix well.
- Turn the mixture into the prepared cake tin and bake for 1 1/2 hrs or until a skewer inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean.
- Cool completely. Wrap in foil and store in an air-tight container.