Christmas Cake

Ingredients

• 8oz Butter/Margarine
• 8oz Brown Sugar
• 6oz Flour
• 2oz Bread Crumbs
• 4 Eggs
• 1 ½ lbs Mixed Fruits
• 1 tsp Benjamins Cinnamon Extract
• ¼ tsp Benjamins Mixed Spice
• ¼ tsp Salt
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• 1tsp Benjamins Vanilla
• 2 tsp Benjamins Browning
• ½ Benjamins Rosewater
• ¼ tsp Benjamins Almond
• ½ cup Brandy
• ½ cup Sherry
• Grated rind of lime

Method

Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time to butter and sugar mixture, beating well after each addition. Sieve dry ingredients into the butter and cream mixture, alternatively with the wine, rum and fruits as well as the grated rind of lime. Add Benjamins Browning, Vanilla, Almond, Cinnamon, Mixed Spice and Rosewater to this mixture.

Pour mixture into greased and lined baking tin and bake at 300°F for 1 ½ hours and then at 275°F for another 1 ½ hours.