Traditional Fruit cake

While I am not a huge fan of traditional fruit cake, I feel that no baking blog is complete without one. So here it is....

Ingredients:

200g butter
150g caster sugar
3 eggs
200g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
125 g dried fruit
75ml whisky or liqueur
1 tbsp vegetable oil

1) Cream butter and sugar together until the mixture achieves a smooth consistency.
2) Beat in the eggs and oil.
3) Sift in the flour and baking powder. Keep to one side.
4) put the alcohol and dried fruit in saucepan and bring to the heat. Turn off once mixture starts to boil.
5) Mix the fruits in with the cake batter, until evenly distributed.
6) Bake at 180 degrees-Celcius for 50 minutes (or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean).
7) If you like, you can dredge a little icing sugar over the cake once it has cooled.

Slice and serve with tea!