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:

1. Preheat the oven to 140 degrees C and prepare a 22-cm cake tin.
2. Bring the fruitcake mix, sugar, water and butter or margarine to the boil and simmer for 5 mins.
3. Remove from the heat and add the bicarbonate of soda (it will froth) and apricot jam. Leave to cool.
4. Add the remaining ingredients and mix well.
5. 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.
6. Cool completely. Wrap in foil and store in an air-tight container.