Simplest Cake in the World!

It doesn't get much easier than this! Use good quality fruit for even more flavour. From chef Wendy Taylor from the North Coast NSW, Australia

• Ready In: 2 hrs 40 mins
• Yields: 1 cake

Ingredients

• 1  kg  mixed dried fruit, use some prunes and figs for extra richness
• 2  cups self raising flour
• 2  cups  orange juice concentrate (I substitute 1 cup of juice with rum or try Baileys Irish cream)
• 1  tablespoon cocoa powder
• 2  teaspoons mixed spice (or 2 teaspoons cinnamon and ½ teaspoon ground cloves)

Directions

1. Line a high cake tin with baking paper.
2. Mix the ingredients together, pour into tin and bake at 200 C for 20 minutes, 175C for 20 minutes and 140 C until cooked- just over an hour in fan forced ovens.
3. The whole cooking time is about 2- 2 ½ hours in total.