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A whole gluten free fruit cake on a cake stand, with fairy lights in the background.

Healthy Gluten Free Fruit Cake for Christmas

Naturopath Lauren Glucina
This healthy gluten free Christmas fruit cake is a family recipe with a twist: no added sugar, butter or eggs, and sorghum flour is used in place wheat flour. Soft and moist – perfect with a digestive herbal tea after dinner. Vegan.
4.50 from 8 votes
Cook Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Course Cake
Cuisine Gluten free, Vegan
Servings 32 slices
Calories 228 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 1 kg mixed fruit omit the peel and glace cherries OR a 1kg mixture of fruit to your liking (slutanas, raisins, dried apricots, prunes, figs)
  • 1 cup dates pitted
  • 1 cup brandy
  • cups dry sherry
  • 1 cup macadamia nuts
  • 1 cup walnuts
  • 1 cup almonds or use 3 cups of any unsalted, raw mixed nuts
  • Zest of 1 lemon
  • Zest of 1 orange
  • 1 teaspoon mixed spice
  • 1¼ - 1½ cups sorghum flour or almond meal
  • 1 teaspoon gluten free baking powder

OPTIONAL, TO BIND:

  • 2 tablespoons ground flax meal or psyllium husks

Instructions
 

  • Soak the mixed fruit and dates in the brandy and dry sherry overnight, or even longer. You will still need to soak the fruit if using orange juice or chai tea in place of alcohol.
  • When ready to cook, pre-heat oven at 150˚C (300˚F) and line a square cake tin with baking paper and set aside.
  • Add the nuts, citrus zest and mixed spice to the soaked fruit and stir well. Sift in the flour and baking powder – you may need the full 1½ cups of sorghum flour though this depends on how moist the batter is. Add the ground flax/psyllium last if using.
  • Pour mixture into cake tin and smooth out the surface. Cover with tinfoil. Bake for 1¼ hours, then remove the foil and bake another five minutes to brown the top.
  • Once cooled, wrap in baking paper then again in tin foil or newspaper to keep fresh. If you went with the brandy and sherry, the cake will last for weeks or more.

Nutrition

Calories: 228kcalCarbohydrates: 31gProtein: 4gFat: 8gSaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 25mgFiber: 4gSugar: 20gCalcium: 45mgIron: 1mg
Keyword Gluten free fruit cake
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