Fruit Cake

INGREDIENTS:

• All purpose flour- 2 cups
• Eggs- 3 large
• Butter- 1/2 cup
• Nuts (almonds, pistachios)- 1cup
• Raisins- 2tblsp
• Sugar- 1 1/2 cup
• Fruit can- 350ml (approximately)
• Baking powder- 1tsp
• Warm milk- 1/2 cup

For icing:

• Sugar- 1/2 cup
• Cinnamon powder- 1tsp.

DIRECTIONS:

1. Take eggs in a bowl and whisk it for 5-10 mins.
2. Add sugar and add it into the eggs, whisk it really good with a beater or you can use a manual whisker.
3. Keep whisking till it becomes thick creamy consistency and starts leaving track behind.
4. Take all-purpose flour and add baking powder in it.
5. Take this flour and add this into the egg mixture and pass through the strainer.
6. Fold it real good.
7. Add butter, fruit can, raisins and nuts and mix it good.
8. Add 1/2 cup of milk.
9. Keep mixing it till all the ingredients are mixed good together.
10. Now spray or flour your baking tray so the cake don't stick to the bottom.
11. Add the cake mixture into the greased baking tray.
12. Preheat your oven at 350 fahrenheit.
13. Place the baking tray in to the hot oven and let it bake for 60- 80 mins or insert knife into the cake mixture, if it comes out clean that means your cake is ready.
14. Remove the cake from the oven and let it cool for 10 mins.
15. For icing, place the sugar and cinnamon into a pan and keep stirring till it melts.
16. Pour immediately on the top of the cake and spread with a knife or back of the spoon.
17. Sprinkle some castor sugar on the top.