Categories: Sweet breads-coffeecake-fruitcake
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups mixed dried fruit, such as dried
- cranberries, cherries, peaches, currants,
- raisins, apples or apricots or any
- combination
- 2 cups strong brewed chai tea, chilled
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. ground cloves
- 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
- Finely grated rind of 1 orange
- 1/2 cup mixed chopped nuts, such as pecans, walnuts or hazelnuts
Directions
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Soak dried fruit in the chilled tea at least 4 hours or up to overnight.
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a
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Bundt pan or large loaf pan.
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In a large bowl, whisk sugar and egg together until well mixed. Stir in flour, baking powder and spices. Mixture will be dry and crumbly.
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Add tea-soaked fruit, orange rind, nuts and all the tea left in the bowl. Stir until batter is wet throughout.
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Scrape batter into prepared pan. Bake 35 to 45 minutes, until a wooden toothpick inserted in the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan about 10 minutes, then turn out onto a cooling rack. Serve warm or let cool and wrap well to serve later.