Cake: Irish Tea Cake

Total Time: 3 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 pint strong tea
• 200 g chewy banana chips
• 125 g cranberries or 125 g raisins
• 200 g dates
• 160 g demerara sugar
• 125 g chopped walnuts
• 1 large egg
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 450 g self raising flour

Recipe

• 1 soak the dried fruit for 1 1/2 hrs in strongly brewed tea. line a 28 x 23cm / 11" x 9" baking tin with baking parchment and lightly grease with vegetable oil.
• 2 beat the egg and milk together. mash the soaked fruit with a fork, then stir in remaining ingredients.
• 3 spread the mixture in roasting tin/s.
• 4 bake in the centre of preheated oven at 170° for about 1 1/2 hrs until golden brown on top and springy to the touch in the centre.
• 5 turn out immediately onto a wire rack.