Malted stem ginger fruit loaf

Malted stem ginger fruit loaf

This rich fruit cake, made with earl grey tea, malt extract and ginger, is perfect with a cuppa. The oven does most of the work here – you'll only need 15 minutes of prep time
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  • Serves: 1 person

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Step 1

    Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and butter and line a 900g loaf tin with a long strip of baking paper. Pour the tea into a bowl along with the malt extract, sugar, raisins, prunes, ground ginger and stem ginger. Leave for 15 mins to steep.
  2. Step 2

    Whisk in the remaining ingredients, plus ½ tsp of fine sea salt, until a smooth batter forms, then pour into the tin. Bake for 1 hr or until a skewer poked into the centre comes out clean. Cover with foil if it’s getting a little dark on top.
  3. Step 3

    Remove from the oven, cool in the tin for 10 mins before moving to a wire rack and cooling completely. Brush with a little malt extract once cool. Cut into slices and serve with a cup of tea.