Low-fat fruit loaf recipe

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Looking for low fat cake recipes, healthy cake recipes, fruit loaf recipes, diet cake recipes or cheap cake recipes? This delicious fat-free fruit cake won't ruin your diet. It takes just 15 minutes to prepare and costs 13p per slice - bargain!

  • healthy
  • Low-fat
  • Vegetarian
  • healthy
Serves10–12
SkillEasy
Preparation Time15 mins
Cooking Time45 mins (may need an extra 5 mins)
Total Time1 hours
Cost RangeCheap
Nutrition Per PortionRDA
Calories225 Kcal11%
Sugar36 g40%
Fat2 g3%
Saturated Fat0.4 g2%
Salt0.2 gRow 4 - Cell 2
Salt0.2 gRow 5 - Cell 2

This delicious low-fat fruit cake won't ruin your diet or your purse. It takes just 15 minutes to prepare and costs 13p per slice - bargain!

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Ingredients

  • 1 tea bag
  • 200g sultanas
  • 100g dried apricots, chopped
  • 175g soft brown sugar
  • 2 medium eggs, beaten
  • 225g wholemeal flour
  • 1tsp baking powder
  • 1tsp mixed spice

Equipment:

  • 1kg loaf tin

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Method

  1. 1. Soak the tea bag in 300ml boiling water and steep for 5 mins. Add the fruit and soak for 2-3 hrs. 2. Preheat the oven to 180ºC (gas mark 4). Grease and base line the 1kg loaf tin. 3. Mix the sugar and eggs into the fruit mixture. Mix the flour, baking powder and mixed spice together and stir into the fruit mixture. 4. Spoon into the prepared tin and bake for 45-50 mins or until firm to touch and a skewer comes out clean. Allow to cool slightly before removing from the tin. More healthy recipes
Top Tip for making Low-fat fruit loaf

Top tip: If you flour nuts and dried fruits before adding them to cake recipes, they won't sink to the bottom.

Jessica Dady
Food Editor

Jessica Dady is Food Editor at GoodtoKnow and has over 12 years of experience as a digital editor, specialising in all things food, recipes, and SEO. From the must-buy seasonal food hampers and advent calendars for Christmas to the family-friendly air fryers that’ll make dinner time a breeze, Jessica loves trying and testing various food products to find the best of the best for the busy parents among us. Over the years of working with GoodtoKnow, Jessica has had the privilege of working alongside Future’s Test Kitchen to create exclusive videos - as well as writing, testing, and shooting her own recipes. When she’s not embracing the great outdoors with her family at the weekends, Jessica enjoys baking up a storm in the kitchen with her favourite bakes being chocolate chip cookies, cupcakes, and a tray of gooey chocolate brownies