I haven’t baked this recipe for a long time as I’m no longer vegan, but it satisfied my passion for fruit cake for many years. It’s a rich, dark fruit cake and as long as you choose your marg and stout carefully it’s vegan.

Ingredients

• 4oz marg
• 1lb whole wheat flour
• 2tsp mixed spice
• 8oz malt extract
• 2lb mixed dried fruit
• rind of ½ lemon
• 4tbs (at least) of stout
• ½pt + 4tbs sugar free soya milk
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

Method

Sieve the flour and mixed spice together. Blend the bicarbonate of soda with the 4tbs of soya milk. Mix all the ingredients and beat in a bowl. Poor into a suitable cake tin and bake at gas mark 3, 160°C or 320°F for 2-2½ hours.