Light fruit cake

Place raisins in a saucepan large enough to mix all the ingredients. Poor orange juice over.

Bring to the boil and simmer for 10minutes. Remove from the heat. Mix in the butter, sugar and essence combined well.

Beat in the eggs using a wooden spoon Sift in the flour and baking powder and mix to combine. Pour into a 20cm square cake tin base-lined with baking paper.

Baked at 160°C for 1hour Cool in tin for 10minutes before turning on a cooling rack