Fruit and walnut cake. Archana teaches us how to make a walnut and date cake at home! Try this Fruit & Nut Cake at home and let us know in the comments below. If you have some dried figs, let's make this super easy spiced fig walnut cake - full of Moroccan flavors!

This incredible walnut cake has layered soft, delicious yellow sponge cakes soaked with a flavorful rum syrup for an extra moist dessert. This old-fashioned favourite is proof that you don't need to invent new recipes in order to eat healthily. Despite being very low in fat it has a lovely light, moist texture, thanks to the dried dates, and makes a pleasant alternative to a conventional fruited cake. You can cook Fruit and walnut cake using 9 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Fruit and walnut cake

You need 250 grams of self raising flour.
It's 60 ml of milk.
It's 3 of eggs.
It's 2 tsp of ground spice.
You need 3 drops of vanilla essence.
It's 125 grams of light brown sugar.
It's 1 tbl of spoon of strawberry jam.
You need 350 grams of mixed fruit.
Prepare 50 grams of walnuts chopped.

It's delightfully easy to make, and keeps well too. This date and walnut cake is a real teatime treat - moist sponge dotted with dates and walnuts, topped with a creamy frosting. We defy you not to sneak a second slice! Why not have a go at a real classic that is a fruit cake with our easy recipe -the perfect festive treat!

Fruit and walnut cake instructions

Mix all the ingredients except fruit and nuts in mixer till smooth. Then fold the fruit and nuts into mixture gently..
Butter a 2pound loaf or round cake tin place mixture in tin and bake in centre of oven for 1hr 15 minutes at fan 150°test with skewer and leave for 10 minutes before removing..

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