Ingredients:
250g Caster sugar
125g Salted butter
2 Tablespoon black treacle
400g Plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 Teaspoon black pepper (2 if you really love Pepper)
1 Teaspoon ginger
1/2 Teaspoon ground cloves
250g Dried mixed fruit
3 Eggs
1/2 Pint of stout
Method:
Pre heat your oven to 170 degrees Celsius and grease and line a 7’’ cake tin with greaseproof paper.
Melt the butter, sugar, and treacle together in a pan.
Put the flour, baking powder, spices, and fruit, into a bowl and mix together. Add the melted butter, eggs, and stout, and mix well.
Pour the mixture into your greased and lined cake tin and cook on the lower shelf of your oven for 1 - 1.5 hours, until a skewer can be cleanly inserted and removed from the centre of the cake. Best serve with a pint of stout or afternoon tea.