Cardamom Cake

from weekendbakery.com

200 grams of butter

200 grams of sugar

200 grams of self raising flour

4 large eggs

200 grams of dried fruit of choice (apricots, raisins, dades, figs, cherries

etc.)

100 ml of your favorite liqueur

pinch of salt

1 tsp of cinnamon

a hint of ground cloves

1/4 of a tsp of cardamom if you grind it yourself from cardamom pods, otherwise

a bit more

Preheat the oven at 175 C / 350 F . Cut the dried fruit in little pieces and

soak it in the liqueur for at least 30 minutes. Mix the butter and sugar well

and add the eggs one by one. Mix in the other ingredients and put the mixture

in a greased cake or bundt pan or mini bundt pans. And now for the slightly

harder part: this cake takes a while to bake, so have some patience. If you

make the big cake with all of the ingredients from the recipe it takes at least

an hour to 70 minutes, depending on your oven. For a cake with half the

ingredients (perfect for sharing with a few friends) it takes about 45 minutes.

Just keep an eye on the process.