Orange and rum fruitcake-cake anglais

The invisible story of an orange and rum fruitcake-cake anglais recipe for a biker! (‘special cake for you’ series)

by Lili
February 27, 2015
30 comments
Healthy cakes and snacks, Special cake for you

Hello sweet reader!  Nice to see you again!  Here’s my little healthy rum and orange fruitcake-cake anglais, made with spelt flour, honey, light brown muscovado sugar and lots of yummy dried fruits and nuts!

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Orange and rum spelt fruitcake-cake anglais

And this is the recipe:

DSCF6064Yes, it’s invisible.  And not because I made an invisible cake (granted there would be numerous health and diet benefits).  No, no, no…

Actually, it’s because I’m doing a Guest Post for the first time, with capital letters and in bold :).  I was asked to design a recipe for a cheerful and friendly fellow blogger and biker I met on our Blogging 101 course.  You may know him, name of Dookes. Here he is:

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I’m sure you’d like to meet him. And if you visit Hogrider Dookes you’ll see some beautiful scenery of places like the Alps and Cornwall – one of my favourite places in the UK.  And of course you’ll find the non-invisible version of my recipe with The story of the healthy fruitcake-cake anglais recipe for a biker on the road (just linked it for you there).  There’ll be drawings too of course and it’s a lovely cake, whether you’re on your bike, hiking, climbing, doing sports, shopping, on a mountain or just home at teatime.

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Dookes on his travels eating his slice of fruitcake-cake anglais

DSCF5368Lots more story and drawings at Dookes’ site.  But don’t put off your visit for too long because he might be taking off on his Harley in a minute.  Roads to travel, fresh air to breathe and fruitcake-cake anglais to eat along the way!

Ah, if only I could bring myself to leave the kitchen.

So bye for now sweet reader and happy visiting! 🙂

P.S.  This could be part of a new ‘special cake for you’ series, so if you’d also like a recipe story for your blog, let me know!
P.P.S. I hope my fellow Friday Fiesta partygoers don’t mind me coming with an invisible recipe. I’ll still bring the virtually real cake for you! 🙂

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Baking on Sundays with my French mum was a lovely part of my childhood. Later I experimented with baking books or internet recipes and did the pâtisserie course at Le Cordon Bleu Paris. Still trying out new recipes and inventing cakes with influences from all around the world, including some healthier ones. Yes, love cakes!!! Hope you'll love them too and have fun baking. :)

30 thoughts on “The invisible story of an orange and rum fruitcake-cake anglais recipe for a biker! (‘special cake for you’ series)”

  4. Alba's avatar
    alba10 says:

    Brilliant piece – I will get both of you to write something for my blog sometime soon (once I decide what I’m doing with a blog in the first place that is!) Congratulations both of you on a fabulous exchange 🙂

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      Lili says:

      Thanks Alba for your very nice and encouraging comments! Happy you enjoyed our joint work on this. It’s been great working with Dookes! I’m sure we would both be very happy to write for you. I really like the humour on your blog by the way, and your killer dog! 🙂

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    • Lili's avatar
      Lili says:

      Thanks so much Sridevi! It’s really nice to know you enjoyed the post and hope you enjoy the fruitcake recipe! 🙂

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  8. Loretta's avatar
    Loretta says:

    Great post, and oh my, I have such a weakness for fruitcake… this looks like a winner!! Off to check out the ingredients and compare them to mine 🙂

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    • Lili's avatar
      Lili says:

      That’s great Loretta! Have a nice time over there and thank you! I’m interested, let me know how yours is and what you think of the fruitcake-cake anglais… 🙂

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