Ingredients

  • 340 g sultanas
  • 340 g flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 3 eggs
  • 225 g caster sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
  • 225 g butter
  • 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional) or 1/2 cup pecans (optional)

Method

  • In a pot, over the sultanas with water and boil for 7 minutes.
  • Drain the sultanas well, but keep them in the pot.
  • Add cubed butter and stir until the butter is melted.
  • In a bowl, beal the eggs and sugar until thick.
  • Add the flour, powder and vanilla.
  • Pour the fruit mix into the flour mix and fold to combine.
  • Bake in a greased and lined large sqaure cake tin.
  • Bake at 175oC for 1 1/2 hours, check after 1 1/4 minutes.
  • Do not ice/frost.
  • Serve warm with butter.