Nobody will ever guess that this cake is sugar and fat reduced.

Ingredients

• 2 cups wholemeal flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 2 tsp mixed spice
• 439 gram can crushed pineapple in syrup (unsweetened)
• 1 cup orange juice
• ½ cup dried apricots
• 1½ cups chopped dates
• grated rind one orange
• ¼ cup light olive oil or melted butter
• ½ cup whole almonds

Method

1. Mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda and spice together in a bowl.
2. Simmer the pineapple with syrup, orange juice, dates, apricots and orange rind together for 5 minutes until mushy. Cool well.
3. Stir gently into the dry ingredients with the oil or butter.
4. Turn into a well-greased and paper-lined 20cm square cake tin. Arrange the almonds on top.
5. Bake at 160ºC for 50 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes before turning out on to a cake rack to cool completely.