Delicious and Quick Christmas Cake (plus muffins!!!)
Ingredients:
- 1 packet of Natural Protein Rich Muffin & Cookie Mix
- 1 tablespoon of mixed spice or spices of choice (optional)
- 1 kg mixed dried fruit/ nuts of choice (e.g. sultanas, currents, dates, macadamias – or a 1kg bag of Sunbeam mixed dried fruit)
- 2 cups water
- ¼ cup oil (e.g. Crisco Canola or Niulife organic coconut oil)
Method:
- Preheat oven to 180C. Line a 20cm square cake tin with 2 layers of Glad Bake (or other non-stick baking paper) so that the paper sits a couple of cm above the top of the tin.
- Line 8 muffin cups with cases (you will have too much mix for 1 cake).
- Mix the mixed dried fruit/nuts in a large bowl with oil, spices and water.
- Add the Naturally Nice Muffin & Cookie mix and stir well. Transfer ¼ cupfulls of mix into the 8 muffin cases and bake for 22 minutes.
- Leave the remaining mix to sit while the muffins are cooking.
- Stir the cake mix again thoroughly and spoon it into the cake tin
- Bake the cake for 1 hour and let cool in the tin before storing in an airtight container
