CHRISTMAS FRUIT CAKE GLUTEN FREE RECIPE
Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 40 mins
Total time: 55 mins
Ingredients
  • Cake

  • 150g medjool dates, chopped
  • 150g dried figs, chopped
  • 150g raisins
  • 150g currants
  • 200 ml cognac
  • 325g or 2½ cups plain gluten free flour
  • 1 tbs baking powder
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp allspice
  • 350ml light olive oil
  • 3 eggs
  • Zest and juice of 1 orange
  • 150g toasted slivered almonds
  • Royal Icing
  • 300g pure icing sugar, sifted
  • 1 egg white
  • 3 tsp lemon juice
Instructions
Conventional Method
  1. Preheat oven to 180C. Grease a 20cm square cake tin and line base with baking paper.
  2. Combine dates, figs, raisins and currants in a saucepan and gently simmer in cognac for 3 minutes. Set aside to cool completely so the fruit can soak up the alcohol.
  3. Add flour, baking powder, cinnamon and allspice to a mixing bowl. Blend on a low speed for a few seconds to combine dry ingredients.
  4. Add oil, eggs, orange zest and juice, almonds and fruit and gently mix until combined.
  5. Spoon batter into tin and bake for 40 min or until an inserted skewer comes out clean. Place cake on a wire rack and leave to cool completely.
  6. To make the icing, beat the egg white, icing and lemon juice together in mixer until a paste is formed. Pour over cake immediately before the icing sets.
Thermomix Method
  1. Preheat oven to 180c. Grease a 20cm square cake tin and line base with baking paper.
  2. Combine dates, figs, raisins, currants and cognac in Thermomix bowl and cook 3 min/100C/speed 1/reverse mode. Pour fruit into a bowl set aside to cool completely so the fruit can soak up the alcohol.
  3. Add flour, baking powder, cinnamon and allspice to clean bowl and blend for 3 sec/speed 5.
  4. Add oil, eggs, orange zest and juice, almonds and fruit and mix 40 sec/speed 5/reverse mode, scraping down sides of bowl halfway through mixing.
  5. Spoon batter into tin and bake for 40 min or until an inserted skewer comes out clean. Place cake on a wire rack and leave to cool completely.
  6. To make the royal icing beat the egg white, icing and lemon juice in Thermomix 5 sec/speed 7. Pour over cake immediately before the icing sets.
Recipe by Helen Tzouganatos at https://helentzouganatos.com/christmas-fruit-cake-gluten-free-recipe/