Christmas Cake in a Mug

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp Butter + little for greasing, at room temperature
• 3 tbsp Brandy or orange juice
• 7 tbsp / 110gms / 3/4th cup Dried fruit, soaked in rum (mix of raisins, chopped dried fruit peel, dried fig, dates and cranberries)
• 3 tbsp Demerara sugar
• 1 Egg
• ½ tsp Garam masala
• ½ tsp Cinnamon powder
• 1 tsp Vanilla extract
• 3 tsp Self-raising flour
• Pinch of salt
• 1 tbsp Glacé cherries, halved
• 2 tbsp Almonds, roughly chopped

Method

• Grease a 350ml mug with a little butter.
• Add the butter, brandy/ orange juice and dried fruit to the mug and place it in Morphy Richards Microwave Oven on High (Power 100) for 30 seconds until butter is melted.
• Add the sugar and mix well with a fork.
• Add the egg, garam masala, cinnamon powder and vanilla extract.
• Beat again until well combined.
• Add the flour, salt, glace cherries and almonds and fold through gently.
• Cook in the Morphy Richards Microwave Oven for 2 minutes and 40 seconds at High (Power 100)
• When done, leave to cool until the cake leaves the edges of the mug.
• You can now top with ice cream and dig in or turn out onto a plate and top with ice -cream.

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