COUNTRY CLUB FRUIT CAKE.

Ingredients.....Topping...1 can of sliced pineapple ( 432gm),glace cherries, sliced almonds. The Cake....250gm of butter/ marg, 250gm of soft brown sugar, 5 eggs beaten, 1 and 1/2 cups of plain flour, 1 cup of self raising flour, 1 tbs of mixed spice, 1.5 kg of mixed fruit. Preheat your oven to 160 deg C. Line a 8"x 8" pan or 9" round pan with baking paper. Drain the pineapple slices, finely chop 2 slices and add to the mixed fruit. Mix together the flours and spice. Beat together the butter/ marg and sugar until light and fluffy. Now add the flour and mixed eggs in measured increments, until well mixed. Stir in the mixed fruit. Spoon the batter into the prepared pan, spread top evenly. Arrange remaining pineapple slices on top of the battter, place a cherry in the centre of each pineapple slice and decorate with almond slices. Bake in the preheated oven for 3 hours or until cooked through when tested with a skewer inserted comes out clean. Cool in the pan on a wire rack before removing. ( Optional ), sprinkle with 1/4 cup of apera sherry while cooling.