Boiled cake

This Mary Berry’s Boiled Fruit Cake is prepared using water, sugar, mixed dried fruit, butter, mixed spice, bicarbonate of soda, eggs, and self-raising flour. This delicious Boiled Fruit Cake recipe is a dessert that takes about 1 hour and 20 minutes to prepare and can serve up to 8 people.

There is nothing like an old fashioned boiled fruit cake recipe as it yields a super moist, soft and dense Christmas Fruit Cake that lasts for long!!

This recipe was in a box of loose recipes I'd cut out of magazines and newspapers. I'm posting it here so it won't get lost. See NOTE at bottom of recipe if you don't have pastry flour. UPDATE-- Made this today. It didn't rise much, maybe it's not supposed too. I did use pastry flour. The flavor is wonderful. I dropped the salt down to 1/2 teaspoon, and used butter instead of shortening. There's less than 1/2 left it was so tasty.

A moist and fudgey chocolate cake without the fuss! A family favourite.

This fruit cake has a long, slow baking time, but you can skip the lengthy fruit soaking process by boiling the dried fruit in ginger beer, which means the cake can be ready to eat the same day you start.

Moist chocolate cake that lasts a long time and freezes really well.

An old fashioned boiled fruit cake satisfies the craving for wholesome comfort food during the dark grey days of February. For this boiled fruit cake the dried and glacé fruits are simmered with sherry, butter and sugar until they are plump and glistening, making a moist rich fruit cake.

An quick and easy boiled fruit cake recipe, a family favourite. Ingredients: 1/4 lb butter 1/4 lb dark brown moist sugar 1/4 pt water 3/4 lb dried fruit (stored above in our new 1/2 lb self raising flour pinch of salt 1 egg #traditionalcornishrecipes #easyfruitcake #traditionalchristmascakes #traditionalfruitcakerecipe

Gorgeous sultana cake recipe - it never goes out of fashion.

Easy and delicious, the most difficult issue with this cake is trying not to devour it in one go!