Low Carb Fruit Cake
Author: Julia McPhee
Recipe type: Low Carb Fruit cake
Cuisine: Low carb
Serves: 20
- 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
- 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.
- When cake is cool, spread with icing (combined mascarpone cheese and rum).
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/
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