This fruit cake is very easy to make and perfect for Christmas and other celebrations. Even fruitcake connoisseurs will never guess that this is not made with traditional wheat flour.

Ingredients

• 125g butter
• ¾ cups dark granulated sugar (brown, muscovado or coconut)
• 1kg mixed dried fruit
• ½ cup sherry
• 1 tsp mixed spice
• zest of 1 orange
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 2 Tbsp liquid sweetener (golden syrup, treacle, coconut nectar, agave nectar)
• 2 eggs
• 150g Natural Evolution Ultimate Gluten Free Baking Flour
• ½ tsp baking powder

Combine first 8 ingredients (butter, sugar, fruit, sherry, spice, zest, baking soda and liquid sweetener) in a saucepan and heat over a medium heat for 2 minutes, stirring often. Allow to cool completely.

Heat oven to 130°C. Grease and line your baking tin, ensuring the paper extends up the sides beyond the tin if you are using a smaller tin. Use a deep 20cm or a regular 30cm tin.

Beat the eggs in a large bowl and add the cooled fruit mixture and stir to combine. Sift the dry ingredients and fold into fruit mixture.

Spoon into the tin and bake for approx 3-3½ hours or until cooked when tested with a skewer.

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Makes 6

Ingredients

• ⅓ cup banana flour – Natural Evolution Foods Ultimate Gluten Free Flour
• 1 Tbsp psyllium husk
• 2 Tbsp tapioca flour
• 1 Tbsp chai spice powder – see below
• Pinch of salt
• 1 egg
• 1 ½ cups milk (approx)

Whisk all the crepe ingredients together then let stand for five minutes to give the psyllium a chance to ‘soak up’ the liquid a little.
Cook on a crepe pan or non stick fry pan over a medium heat.

Chai spice mix

• 1 tsp cardamom
• 1 tsp allspice
• 1 tsp cloves
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 3 tsp ginger

Mix all together and store leftover spice mix in a small jar or container.

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Ingredients:

• 1 ½ cups warm water
• 3 Tbsp golden syrup or other liquid sweetener (coconut nectar, maple, honey, agave)
• 2 Tbsp active dry yeast
• 3 eggs
• 2 tsp apple cider vinegar
• 2 Tbsp coconut oil or butter
• 1 ½ cups Natural Evolution Ultimate Gluten Free Banana Flour
• ¼ cup ground flaxseed
• ¼ cup psyllium husk
• 4 tsp baking powder
• 7 tsp mixed spice
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 ½ cups dried fruit

1. Grease your loaf pan.
2. Mix golden syrup and yeast into the warm water and set aside for 5-15 minutes (it will need longer in cooler seasons) It will begin to look foamy as the yeast starts working.
3. In a small bowl whisk together eggs, apple cider vinegar, oil or butter (melted but not hot).
4. In a food processor add Banana Flour, flaxseed, psyllium husk, baking powder, mixed spice andsalt). Mix briefly to combine.
5. Add the egg mix and the yeast mix to the dry ingredients and blend to combine well. The mixture will look like a thick batter.
6. Remove the blade and stir in the dried fruit by hand.
7. Put mixture into your loaf pan and smooth the top with a wet spatula or fingers. Place in a warm area to rise for about 30 – 40 minutes. If it is cold you can put it in the hot water cupboard or microwave a wet tea towel for about a minute, then put the loaf pan inside the microwave and close the door. The warm, humid environment can help the bread rise.
8. Preheat the oven to 190 degrees Celsius.

Once the loaf has risen to the top or just above the top of the dish, bake for 45 minutes.

Once cooked, let cool in dish for 5 minutes, then turn out to cool completely.

• Paleo ✓ (use coconut oil)
• Raw X
• Vegan X
• Vegetarian ✓
• Low FODMAP ✓ (use coconut nectar or brown rice syrup)
• Refined Sugar Free ✓ (use honey, maple, brown rice, agave)
• Gluten Free ✓
• Nut Free ✓
• Soy Free ✓
• Dairy Free ✓ (use coconut oil)
• Egg Free X
• AIP X

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