BOILED CHOCOLATE FRUIT CAKE .

It is nearly Christmas, let's get organised. Ingredients.....2 cups of mixed fruit, 1 cup of brown sugar, 110 gm of butter / marg, 1 tsp of bi carb of soda, 3/ 4 of a cup of water, 1/4 of a cup of Apera. Place these ingredients in a medium saucepan and bring to the boil. Simmer for 1 minute only, then remove from heat and allow to cool in a large non metallic bowl Preheat your oven to 160 deg C. Line a 22.5 cm x 22.5 cm square pan with baking paper. Ingredients for the cake batter....1/2 of a cup of plain flour, 2 tbs of cocoa, 1 and 1/2 cups of self raising flour, 2 eggs, lightly beaten. Now that the fruit mixture has cooled, mix together the flours and cocoa. Using a wooden spoon fold through the flour and cocoa mixture alternatively with the beaten eggs. Place the mixture in the prepared pan and bake in the preheated oven for 40 minutes, then place a loose sheet over the cake and continue to cook for 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Remove from the oven and let sit in the pan for 10 minutes and then turn out onto wire rack to cool completely. This cake keeps well in an airtight container wrapped in foil and is also freezer friendly. Decorate as you desire.