Here’s something I’m going to try when I go back to Perth for

Christmas this year….& it’s gluten free – sshhh don’t tell them!!

Ingredients: 

• 150g unsalted butter
• 3/4 cup caster sugar
• 1tsp vanilla extract
• 5 eggs
• 1 lemon, zest & juice
• 1 orange, zest & juice
• 3/4 cup coconut flour/meal
• 350-500g mixed dried fruit (or chopped dates/sultanas/cranberries……or whatever you like)
• 80g pistachios, roughly chopped
• icing sugar for dusting (optional)

Method:

• Preheat oven 150°C
• Double line a 20cm round tin with baking paper.
• Cream butter & sugar until light & fluffy.
• Add vanilla extract & eggs one at a time beating well after each addition.
• Stir in zests, juices, coconut flour, mixed fruit & pistachios.
• Bake for 1hr 20mins or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
• Dust with icing sugar.