Christmas Mincemeat Loaf Cake

Mincemeat Loaf Cake, a festival dessert that is super easy to make with just a few simple ingredients. If you happen to have a some mincemeat left in a jar and a few dried fruit, you can put them to great use in this moist and flavourful cake that tastes exactly like Christmas. Perfect for this time of year when we are all so busy!

Mincemeat Loaf Cake is the best easy festival bake. If you love mince pies or want something quicker, lighter an easier than a full Christmas fruit cake with your afternoon tea, this is the perfect bake for you.

This Mincemeat Loaf Cake is like a fruit loaf, but with a deliciously Christmasy flavour to it. Or a slightly lighter version of a Christmas cake. If you have made mince pies and still have some mincemeat to use up, this is the perfect way of doing that.

Mary Berry's Mincemeat Loaf Cake is a perfect easy, one bowl bake-and it is a perfect recipe for using up that half empty jar of mincemeat. You can't go wrong with a Mary Berry recipe and this one is a real classic. A light fruit cake that's perfect with a cup of tea or a glass of mulled wine.

I make these Mincemeat Loaf Cakes every Christmas to give as gifts and they always go down really well.

• 150g soft butter
• 225g mincemeat
• 150g soft light brown sugar
• 225g self raising flour
• 2 medium eggs
• 100g glace cherries, optional
• 100g sultanas, raisin or mix fruits
• 2 tbsp milk
• 50g blanched almonds, for decoration

Method:

Preheat oven to 180ºC/160ºC for fan assist oven.

Grease and line 2 1lb loaf tins.

Mix all the ingredients except for the blanched almonds together until they are well incorporated.

Spoon the mixture into your loaf tins. Stud with blanched almonds/halved cherries.

Bake for 45 minutes to 50 minutes or until the cakes are shrinking from the sides, risen and golden and a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.

You can "feed" tis cake with brandy or rum if desired-once the cakes are cool, poke little holes in the top of the cakes with a skewer and drizzle with a pastry brush over your alcohol of choice!