Gluten Free Christmas Fruit Loaf

This is one of my family's absolute FAVORITE Christmas cakes.

This Chrissy loaf is dense, but it sparkles with Christmas flavors!

A great option to have for Chrissy snacks or to take for a party plate.

Ingredients:

• 600 g mixed dried fruit or a mix of the following (raisins, apricot, sultanas)

• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

• 1 teaspoon vanilla bean extract or paste

• ¼ teaspoon nutmeg

• zest and juice from 1 orange

• 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

• 3 organic eggs

• 200 g (2 cups) ground almonds

• 50 g walnuts

Method:

• Preheat your oven to 160°C fan forced.

• Prepare a 20 cm round cake tin with baking paper lining the sides and the base.

• Combine dried fruit, spice, vanilla, orange zest + juice, olive oil and eggs.

• Add the almonds and walnuts and mix through.

• Spoon Christmas Cake batter into your baking tin.

• Bake for 1 hour and 30 minutes. Check with a skewer to see if it comes out clean, if not bake for another 30 minutes.

• Cover the top if necessary to prevent over browning,

• Remove from the tin and store in an airtight container in the fridge.

(Healthy Chef)