Low Carb Fruit Cake
 
 
This low carb fruit cake is a great alternative to a traditional fruit cake.
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Recipe type: Low Carb Fruit cake
Cuisine: Low carb
Serves: 20
Ingredients
  • 170g Cranberries (dried)
  • ½ cup Rum/brandy/gin
  • ½ cup chopped Nuts (walnuts, Brazil)
  • 1½ cups Almond meal
  • 1 tbsp Natvia
  • 1 tsp Cinnamon
  • 1 tsp Mixed spice
  • ½ tsp Baking soda
  • ¼ cup Butter
  • 1 tsp Vanilla essence
  • 1 tbsp Almond essence
  • 4 Eggs
  • 4 tbsp rum (extra)
  • Icing
  • ½cup Mascarpone cheese
  • 1 tbsp Rum or brandy
Instructions
  1. Soak cranberries in rum (or other alcohol) for 1 hour. Mix dry ingredients (almond meal,spices, baking soda). Add cranberries and chopped nuts. Beat eggs and add melted butter, Natvia and essences and add to remaining mixture. Pour mixture into a 20 cm greased cake time. Bake at 170 degrees C for about 20 minutes or until the cake is firm to touch and a knife inserted comes out clean. When you remove the cake from the oven, pour the remaining 4 tbsp rum over the hot cake.
  2. When cake is cool, spread with icing (combined mascarpone cheese and rum).
Nutrition Information
Serving size: 1 Calories: 139 Fat: 10.8g Saturated fat: 3.2g Carbohydrates: 5.4g
Recipe by Julia McPhee at http://www.jmcphee.com/2015/12/12/low-carb-fruit-cake-2/