Pumpkin Fruit Cake

What you’ll need…

500g Sunbeam Mixed Fruit

1 1/2 cups brown sugar

1 tbsp golden syrup

125g butter

1 cup apricot nectar

1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

2 eggs, lightly beaten

1 cup cooked pumpkin, cold and mashed

1 cup plain flour, sifted

1 cup self raising flour, sifted

Preheat oven to 160⁰C. Grease and line a 20cm round cake tin.

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.
Add eggs and pumpkin. Beat till smooth. Then add flours and mix well to combine.
Place in tin and bake for 90 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean.