Super quick all in one fruit cake recipe

[prison break fan]

Thankyou!! pbf.

[Peggy Sue]

I just love recipes you can bung it all together quick while the veg boils and it cooks while you eat tea- jjust ready for warm cake and sloe gin in front of the telly before bed mmmm

[grannymags]

Made this one this evening. It is delicious. Couldn't wait for it to cool down!

It is so quick. That appeals to me so I will definitely make this again, and again....

Thanks

Maggie x

[Peggy Sue]

Made this one this evening. It is delicious. Couldn't wait for it to cool down!

Cool down?
Only half a cake ever gets to cool down in our house!

[grannymags]

Thats it! I didn't wait for it to cool down!

We ate half of it hot and hubby took a large chunk to work with him today, so there isn't much left!

OH NO!! I will have to make another one!!

Maggie x

[Peggy Sue]

I have this on-going problem. A local farmer gives me eggs from time to time, I promise him a bit of cake, get home, make cake, eat cake....only a bit left- just enough for a slice at work so none left for the farmer!

I need to make larger cakes or have more restraint.... maybe larger cakes is the answer

[ina]

I need to make larger cakes or have more restraint.... maybe larger cakes is the answer

I find it works better to make several smaller ones: one to eat, one to give away, and one to keep. Once you've started on one, it's too late to do anything else but finish it!

[Peggy Sue]

I need to make larger cakes or have more restraint.... maybe larger cakes is the answer

I find it works better to make several smaller ones: one to eat, one to give away, and one to keep. Once you've started on one, it's too late to do anything else but finish it!

Well I can try....it is a good plan...

[Peggy Sue]

Did this cake in 4 minutes!!!

I tried it with plums too instead of dried fruit since we have lots right now....very nice

[Penny Lane]

Oh I'm going to try this I love fruit cake, sod the diet!

Thanks Susie

[Green Aura]

I think it's actually illegal Susie:lol: It is in this house anyway.

Thanks for the recipe - will try this weekend, although we might be a bit caked out as I've just made a dozen cherry muffins and a malt loaf - sod the soap-making.

Peggy Sue - I like your thinking. Cake and sloe gin, hmmmm. Could become habit-forming. And, of course, we'd have to experiment with the plum brandy and rhubarb vodka - all in the name of science

[ina]

Stupid question: why is it called all in one? I've found a few recipes with this name, and they don't look any different to me than "ordinary" fruitcake...

Puzzled from Aberdeenshire.

[Green Aura]

I think it's because you chuck everything in at the same time, Ina.

More traditional cakes have you creaming butter and sugar then slowly adding eggs and flour and then folding fruit etc in at the end.

Pain in the bum and I can't tell sufficient difference with the end result to warrant all the extra effort.

[ina]

Mmmh. Have to check those other recipes - I think they used butter, and it's difficult to mix that with everything else at once without doing something like creaming or melting first! I tend to use oil anyway, unless I need the special butter flavour. Much easier.

Just to be pernickety - shouldn't it be called "all at once" then - because in traditional recipes all the ingredients go into one, too - even if not at once?! (Sorry - only a bloody foreigner can come up with stupid ideas like this... )

[Millymollymandy]

Or just "speedy fruit cake"?! I've never made one so I don't know how they are traditionally made, which leads to my next question........


What do you use for 'mixed fruits'? Any old mix of whatever dried fruit there is in the cupboard like sultanas, dates, prunes, apricots? Or does the UK sell 'mixed fruit' in a packet or something?

And what's an oz in grams again? I can't do old fashioned recipes any more!