Maella

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 1

    Soak the dried fruit in the hot tea, cover and leave to soak overnight.

  2. 2

    Preheat your oven to 160c and line a loaf tin ready for the batter.

  3. 3

    In a large bowl add the flour, sugar, spices, orange and lemon zests and 1 egg.

  4. 4

    Add the cooled fruit and tea mixture and combine it altogether to form your cake batter.

  5. 5

    Transfer into your prepared tin and bake for 45 -50 minutes.

  6. 6

    When it comes out of the oven, pour oven the whiskey, then cover it and leave until the next day, this step isn’t essential, but I find it really adds to the flavour and make the cake lovely and moist!

  7. 7

    Serve warm or cold with lashings of creamy Irish butter! Enjoy!