Fruit Cake Slice With Lemon Icing.

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 125 g unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup apricot jam
• 3 cups crumbled fruitcake
• 3/4 cup self-raising flour
• 1/4 cup desiccated coconut
• 2 teaspoons mixed spice
• 1/2 cup milk
• extra mixed spice, to decorate
• 100 g unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 2 teaspoons finely grated lemon rind
• 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar icing

Recipe

• 1 grease a 19cm x 30cm lamington pan. line base of pan with baking paper.
• 2 beat butter and sugar in a small bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. beat in eggs, one at a time, until combined. beat in apricot jam. transfer mixture to a large bowl.
• 3 stir cake crumbs into egg mixture until combined,stir in flour, coconut, mixed spice and milk, in two batches. spread mixture into prepared pan.
• 4 cook in a moderate oven (180c) for about 30 minutes, or until cooked when tested. stand for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool.
• 5 lemon icing ~
• 6 beat butter and lemon rind until pale in colour. gradually beat in icing sugar mixture, and beat until smooth.
• 7 spread lemon icing over cold slice. sprinkle with extra mixed spice before cutting into squares.