Pumpkin Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup (250g) cooked pumpkin, cold and mashed
• 500g Sunbeam Mixed Fruit
• 1 1/2 (300g) cups brown sugar
• 1 tbsp golden syrup
• 125g butter
• 1 cup apricot nectar
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 cup (150g) plain flour, sifted
• 1 cup (150g) self raising flour, sifted

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 160°C. Grease and line a 20cm round cake tin.
2. Bring to the boil mixed fruit, sugar, syrup, butter and apricot nectar, stirring all the time and simmer gently for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and add bicarbonate of soda. Allow mixture to cool.
3. Add eggs and pumpkin. Beat till smooth. Then add flours and mix well to combine.
4. Place in tin and bake for 90 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean.