Orange Fruit Cake

This delicious orange fruitcake is quick and easy to make in the Tefal Cuisine Companion. The Tefal Cuisine Companion creams the butter and sugar before the other ingredients are added and the pre soaked fruit are stirred through just before baking.

Note: The dried fruit, zest and orange juice are combined and refrigerated 12-14 hours before using.
Note: I use eggs from an 800 gram carton of 12 eggs.

300 gms Dried Fruit
190 gms Orange Juice
1 teaspoon Orange Zest grated
Combine dried fruit, 190 gms orange juice and zest, cover with cling wrap and refrigerate 12-14 hours.

Preheat oven 160 deg. Grease and bottom paper line loaf tin, grease paper.

100 gms Glacé Cherries quartered
250 gms Butter softened and diced
110 gms Caster Sugar
4 Eggs
10 gms Orange Juice extra
230 gms Plain Flour

Add glacé cherries to dried fruit/orange juice mixture and set aside.

Insert Kneading Blade. Stopper out.
Add butter and caster sugar.
Sp10:1min 30sec or until mixture is creamy scraping sides of bowl with spatula every 15 sec.
Add eggs, 10 gms orange juice and plain flour.
Sp6:1min
Turbo in 10 sec bursts until batter is smooth scraping sides of bowl with spatula every 10sec.
Remove blade.
Add set aside dried fruit, cherry and orange juice mixture.
Stir with spatula until combined.
Bake 55-60 minutes or until done when tested. Cover loosely with foil after 45 mins if top is browning too much.
Leave in tin 5 minutes then place fruit cake on cooling tray to cool completely.
Decorate as desired.