QUICK COCOA FRUIT CAKE Filed under ( Cakes and Bakes, My fav things-EVENT )

I have been thinking of baking a fruit cake for ages, but somehow all the recipes of those gorgeous fruit cakes are so lengthy maybe really great for once in year kind of Christmas baking but what if you want a delicious fruit cake in a jiffy, this is exactly that kind of of Cake and the best part is that it keeps fresh for several weeks!

                                                   Quick Cocoa Fruit Cake

Ingredients-

• Flour, sifted-1 1/2 cups
• Sugar- 1 cup
• Cocoa- 3 tbsp.
• Salt- 1/2 tsp.
• Egg- 1, well beaten
• Soda- 1 tsp.
• Butter(melted) / Refined oil- 5 tbsp.
• Vanilla essence- 1 tsp
• Milk- 3/4 cup
• Vinegar- 1 tbsp.
• 1/2 cup grated coconut
• 1/2 cup chopped mixed fruit, dredged with flour

Method-

Take a large bowl and add all the ingredients, and mix together very well for 10 minutes.Preheat oven to 180 deg.C and bake for 45 mins. in a well greased and lined pan.

Cover immediately after removing from oven so that the cake remains soft, store in an airtight box.

This recipe yields one large cake, we really enjoyed it with Fruit Ice-Cream!.

                

This cake goes for my event-the theme for this month is Cakes and muffins .

                                          

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