This low carb fruit cake is a great alternative to a traditional fruit cake. 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
Nigella's easy chocolate fruit cake is dark, moist and delicious. Perfect as a chocolate Christmas cake or for anytime of year. Preheat the oven to 150C/130C Fan/Gas mark 2. Line the sides and bottom of a 20cm/8in, 9cm/3½in deep, round loose-bottomed cake tin with a layer of bake-o-glide or other reusable silicon-baking parchment.
This low-carb cake, however, is made with butter, almond flour (to replace wheat flour), mixed spice, fresh eggs, and your favorite sugar replacement (to replace added sugar and treacle). There is no dried fruit in the basic recipe but there are 6 flavors and optional extras such as dried cranberries if you want a more authentic taste.
While Nigella said she had been making lemon drizzle cake “for decades,” she shared a new update on her traditional recipe, which has given an upgrade on the flavour.