Cheats Christmas Cake

This recipe is the boss 'too busy for a normal Christmas Cake'!

Ingredients

1kg Mixed fruit                               

600mls Big M (Coffee or Choc)

or 500ml flavoured milk and 100ml brandy, baileys, your choice of alcohol.                

2 Cups S.R. Flour

1 tbs Mixed Spice

Method

1. Pour the Big M over the Fruit.  Soak overnight. 
2. Next day, mix in self-raising flour and mixed spice.
3. Preheat your oven to 180*C
4. Pour into greased and base lined 1x10” or 2x8” cake tins.
5. Bake in the oven for upto 1.5 hours, until firm to touch. 
   
6. Leave in the tin for a while to cool a bit.
7. Tip out onto a cooling rack. Store in an airtight container. Keeps for 1 week.