Ingredients

• 500 g - fruitcake mix
• 1 cup - sugar
• 2 extra large eggs, whisked
• 1 cup - water
• 250 g - butter or margarine
• 1 tsp - bicarbonate of soda
• 1 tbsp - smooth apricot jam
• 2 cups - flour
• 2 tbsp - mixed spice
• 1 tsp - baking powder
• 1 pinch salt

How to Make Fruit Cake with Apricot Jam

• Preheat the oven to 140 C and prepare a 22 cm cake tin.
• Bring the fruitcake mix, sugar, water and butter or margarine to the boil.
• Simmer for five minutes.
• Remove from the heat and add the bicarbonate of soda (it will froth) and apricot jam.
• Leave to cool and add the remaining ingredients and mix well.
• Turn the mixture into the prepared cake tin.
• Bake for 1.5 hours or until a testing skewer inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean.
• Cool completely.
• Wrap in foil and store in an air tight container.