Categories: Sweet breads-coffeecake-fruitcake

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups mixed dried fruit, such as dried
• cranberries, cherries, peaches, currants,
• raisins, apples or apricots or any
• combination
• 2 cups strong brewed chai tea, chilled
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp. ground cloves
• 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
• Finely grated rind of 1 orange
• 1/2 cup mixed chopped nuts, such as pecans, walnuts or hazelnuts

Directions

1. Soak dried fruit in the chilled tea at least 4 hours or up to overnight.

2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a

3. Bundt pan or large loaf pan.

4. In a large bowl, whisk sugar and egg together until well mixed. Stir in flour, baking powder and spices. Mixture will be dry and crumbly.

5. Add tea-soaked fruit, orange rind, nuts and all the tea left in the bowl. Stir until batter is wet throughout.

6. Scrape batter into prepared pan. Bake 35 to 45 minutes, until a wooden toothpick inserted in the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan about 10 minutes, then turn out onto a cooling rack. Serve warm or let cool and wrap well to serve later.

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