Diet coke Christmas cake recipe
Festive flavours of sour cherries, cranberries, mixed spice and cinnamon, plus the honey, result in an exciting update to a classic Christmas cake. The addition of diet coke to the cake makes it extra moist.
See method- Serves 10 slices
- 10 mins to prepare and 1 hour 15 mins to cook
- 263 calories / serving
- Freezable
- Vegetarian
Ingredients
- 300ml diet Coke
- 225g dried pitted dates, roughly chopped
- 5ml (1tsp) bicarbonate of soda
- 50g dried sour cherries
- 50g dried cranberries
- 60ml (4tbsp) honey
- 250g self-raising flour
- 10ml (2tsp) ground mixed spice
- 5ml (1tsp) ground cinnamon
- 2 medium eggs, lightly beaten
- 75g pecans or walnuts, chopped
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Shop ingredientsEach serving contains
- Energy
- 1115kJ 263.0kcal
- Fat
- 7g
- Saturates
- 1g
- Salt
- 0.5g
- Sugars
- 27g
of the Reference intake
Carbohydrate 47.9gProtein 5.1gFibre 4.1g
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- Grease and base line a 900g loaf tin and preheat the oven to 180ºC, gas mark 4.
- Heat the Diet Coke in a medium pan until boiling. Remove from heat and stir indates, bicarbonate of soda, then stir in thecherries, cranberries andhoney. Mix well and allow to cool.
- Sift the flour with the spices, then add to the cooled date mixture. Stir in the eggs and nuts. Pour into the prepared tin and bake for 1-1¼ hours, or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean, covering with foil if the cake becomes too brown.
- Leave to cool in the tin. Store in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
