An extremely refreshing, light fruit cake which is low fat too, only about a half cup oil is used for 2 cakes ,so that makes it 1/4 cup per cake!, the best part is that it is so quick- no elaborate beating ,folding, just dump everything into one large bowl it is ready to go into the oven!!
Fresh Orangey~Fruit Cake
Ingredients-
(makes 2 cakes)
- Orange juice- 1/2 cup
- Milk- 1/2 cup
- Flour- 2 cups
- Baking powder-3 tsp
- Candied mixed fruit- 1 cup
- Orange rind, grated- 1 tsp.
- Salt- 1/2 tsp
- Eggs- 3
- Sugar- 1 1/2 cups
- Vegetable oil- 1/2 cup
- 1 orange, cut into segments
For the fat-free glaze-
Combine half cup fresh orange juice with 2 tbsp sugar and 2 tsp cornflour, boil till it thickens, let cool .
Method-
Combine everything together in a large bowl and stir well, pour into prepared pans and bake for 45 mins at 180 deg.C .Drizzle glaze over cooled cake and decorate with orange segments. I am sending this one to Zlamushka for her spoonful of christmas event-http://www.burntmouth.com/2007/10/spoonful-of-christmas.html
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