Leaf Printing and Fruit Cake

The children and I enjoyed collecting some leaves and then printing with them. Well some printed others where happy just to paint their leaves.

I have had a couple of attempts of trying to adapt a fruit cake recipe to eggless, with varying degrees of success, this time I decided to try and boil the fruit, it worked and I am very happy with the results. It's great to have another recipe I can make with L as she loves to cook and help out in the kitchen. I've used oat milk but if no one has a dairy allergy then normal milk will be fine.

Eggless Fruit Cake

100g raisins

60g currants

60g sultanas

125g soft brown sugar

150g margarine

125ml oat milk

350g plain flour

5ml mixed spice

zest of one orange

30ml vinegar

5ml bicarbonate of soda.

1. Cream together the sugar and margarine.
2. Gradually add milk and flour and mixed spice, alternating a spoonful of flour and then some milk.
3. Add dried fruit and zest of orange.
4.  In a small pot mix the vinegar and bicarbonate of soda together, it will fizz, add it straight to the other ingredients while it's still fizzing and mix everything together.
5. Place in cake tin, bake at gas 2 for about 2 hours