Dark Fruit Cake
A dish made with butter and brown sugar.
contains glutencontains dairycontains eggs
Ingredients
US
Metric
- 120 ml butter
- 180 ml brown sugar
- 180 ml raisins (seeded and cut in pieces)
- 180 ml currants
- 120 ml citron (thinly sliced and cut in strips)
- 120 ml molasses
- 2 eggs
- 120 ml milk
- 470 ml flour
- 2 ml soda
- 5 ml cinnamon
- 2 ml allspice
- 2 ml mace
- 1 ml clove
- 2 ml lemon extract
Make it lactose-friendly
- ½ cup butter → plant butter, ghee (mostly lactose-free), or olive oil
- ½ cup milk → lactose-free milk, oat milk, or almond milk
Steps
- Cream the butter and brown sugar together until well mixed.
- Beat in the eggs and molasses.
- Combine the flour, soda, cinnamon, allspice, mace, and clove.
- Add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture alternately with the milk.
- Stir in the raisins, currants, citron, and lemon extract.
- Pour the batter into deep cake pans.
- Bake for 1¼ hours.
Nutrition (estimated, per serving)
| Calories | 469 |
|---|---|
| Protein | 6.3 g |
| Fat | 13.7 g |
| Carbs | 83.7 g |
| Fiber | 2.7 g |
| Sodium | 51 mg |
Source
The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (Fannie Farmer, pub. domain) — Public domain in the United States