Otago Museum Cafe's fruit cake
2½ cups flour
2½ tsp baking powder
2½ cups orange juice
1kg fruitcake mix (sultanas, mixed peel, glazed cherries)
sliced almonds (optional)
Preheat oven to 150degC.
Sift flour and baking powder together. Fold through the fruit mix while gradually adding orange juice.
Place in a round cake tin, lined with baking paper.
Sprinkle with sliced almonds if using. Bake for one hour.
Requested by Leone Loeber of Dunedin.
Danni Roberts of the Otago Museum Cafe has supplied this recipe.
• If you have enjoyed a dish in an Otago cafe or restaurant and would like the recipe, write to Ask a Chef, Features, Otago Daily Times, PO Box 181, Dunedin, or email odt.features@odt.co.nz, including your name, address and a daytime telephone number, and we will request it.
