Irish Porter Cake

This traditional delicious Irish fruit cake contains porter, which is a dark beer with luscious malt flavour.

Ingredients

225 g butter

225 g brown sugar

300 ml stout

225 g sultanas

225 g raisins

110 g mixed peel

450 g plain white flour

½ tsp bicarbonate of soda

1 tbls mixed spice

110 g glace cherries

3 eggs

Method

Preheat oven to 160ºC normal bake. Spray a 25 cm cake tin with cooking spray. Place butter, sugar and stout in a saucepan over medium heat. Cook until butter is melted. Add sultanas, raisins and peel to the mix and bring to the boil while occasionally stirring. Keep boiling for 3 minutes and take of the stove. Allow cooling for approx. 30 minutes until lukewarm. Place flour, soda and mixed spice in a bowl and blend. Add this flour mix and cherries to the fruit mixture and combine. Add eggs one at a time and mix evenly. Place batter evenly in the prepared tin and place in the middle of the oven. Bake for approx. 75 minutes and allow cooling in the tin for at least 1 hour. Remove cake from the tin and cover with food wrap. Keep the cake stored in a cool place or in the fridge for a day before cutting.

Note: For added flavour pour 80 ml stout on the cake while it is in the tin.