French chef’s ‘simple’ cake recipe uses up tinned fruit and bakes in just 30 minutes

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Fruit cake can be made with your favourite canned fruit (Image: Getty)

The alumnus has elevated her baking to new heights since appearing in the quarter-finals back in 2018.

At present, the 33-year-old and mother-of-two has just released her new cookbook, Chez Manon.

While recent include the “best burnt basque with pistachio butter” and a French “Galette des Rois”, her fruit cake has garnered more than 18,000 likes on .

Sharing her fruit cake , the brilliant said any “fruit can” would work—she’s used tinned pears, cherries, peaches, and pineapple.

Any tin of fruit you want to use up in your kitchen cupboard can be transformed into a delicious

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Fruit cake recipe

Serves: six people

Ingredients

For the batter

One cup plain flour

One tsp baking powder

Half cup golden sugar or normal sugar

Three tbsp Kefir (or Greek yogurt)

Two tbsp virgin oil

Three large eggs

Pinch salt

One or two canned fruit

For the frangipane

50g melted salted butter

50g golden sugar

50g grounded almonds

One egg

[EXPERT] [RECIPE]

Method

Make the batter

Add all the batter ingredients into a bowl and mix for 30 seconds until you get a smooth batter.

Make the frangipane

Now mix all the frangipane ingredients together in another bowl.

Butter and flour the rectangle baking tin (15x20cm), pour in the batter, add the drained canned fruits and top with the frangipane.

Then bake the fruit cake at 180C fan (160C non-fan) for 30 minutes. The baker adds: “Et voila!”

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